Supreme Court of India

S.N. Dhingra and Ors. v. Union of India and Ors.

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Bench G.B. Pattanaik and B.N. Agrawal JJ.
Decided 31 January 2001

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Service law : lnter-se seniority-Judicial Service-Direct recruits and promotees- Gradation list prepared by High Court on the directions of Supreme Court in Rudra Kumar's case included names of Promotee-respondents-Promotees appointed as Metropolitan Magistrates on fortuirous and slop-gap arrangement and later upgraded to Judicial Service-objection by direct­ recruit-petitioners for inclusion of their names on ground that they were not initially appointed in the Judicial Service and were junior to them under the provisions of Criminal Procedure Code-Continuous length in service for…

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