Supreme Court of India

Ramesh Kumar & Ors. Etc. v. State of Himachal Pradesh & Ors. Etc.

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Reported as [2021] 7 S.C.R. 337
Bench M. R. Shah and Sanjiv Khanna JJ.
Decided 13 November 2021

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above and for the reasons stated above, all these appeals fails and are deserve to be dismissed and accordingly dismissed.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Service law: Promotion – Post of Accounts Officer(AO ) – Promotion to the post of AO sought by direct recruits to th e post of Assistant Accounts Officer (AAO) – Requirement of p assing SAS Part II exam for promotion – Held: What is not requ ired for the lower post, cannot be made applicable to the promotio nal post – When there was no requirement of passing SAS Part II exam ination for the lower post, i.e., post of AAO so far as dir ect recruits is concerned, there cannot be any requirement of passing of the SAS Part II exam for the promotional post of AO – After the a ppointment as AAO

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