Supreme Court of India

P. Rammohan Rao v. K. Srinivas and Ors. Etc.

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Reported as [2025] 2 S.C.R. 1060
Bench Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha and Sandeep Mehta JJ.
Decided 13 February 2025

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What the Court ordered

We hold that:- (A) Once an incumbent is appointed to a post according to rule, his seniority has to be counted from the date of his appointment and not according to the date of his confirmation.

Judgment, page 20

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration Issue arose whether the period of officiating service of the temporarily appointed Assistant Executive Engineers-AEEs between 1990-1992 including the appellants should be taken into account for considering their seniority over and above the 1997 batch of regularly appointed candidates through APPSC-private respondents. Headnotes† Service Law – Seniority – Counting of the period of officiating service – Appellants regularly appointed in 1990 as Work Inspectors in the State Corporation – For the project-based exigency, in 1992, the appellants and one other appointed as

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