Supreme Court of India

Ajay Kumar Shukla and Others v. Arvind Rai and Others

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Reported as [2021] 12 S.C.R. 1178
Bench Dr. D.Y. Chandrachud, Vikram Nath and B.V. Nagarathna JJ.
Decided 8 December 2021

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above, it is well settled that impleadment of a few of the affected employees would be sufficient compliance of the principle of joinder of parties and they could defend the interes t of all affected persons in their representative capacity.

Judgment, page 38

From the headnote

Service Law: Seniority list – Appellants working as Junior Engineers belonging to Mechanical and Civil Streams whereas respondents from agricultural stream – Plea of the app ellants that in the seniority list, the department had placed the candidates of the three lists- Agricultural, Mechanical and Civil in the same sequence as they were received with their inter se senior ity in their respective lists, the agricultural stream on the to p, thereafter mechanical and lastly the civil stream – Writ petition by the a ppellant challenging the seniority list – Single Judge quashed the seniority

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to

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