Supreme Court of India
P. Rammohan Rao v. K. Srinivas and Ors. Etc.
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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
Authorities it was built on
- 1985 Union of India and Another v. Tulsiram Patel and Others
- 1990 Direct Recruit Class Ii Engineering Officers' Association and Ors. v. State of Maharashtra and Ors.
- 2014 Amarendra Kumar Mohapatra & Ors. v. State of Orissa & Ors.
- 2023 Orissa Administrative Tribunal Bar Association v. Union of India & Others
- 2003 Santosh Kumar v. State of Andhra Pradesh and Ors.
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