Supreme Court of India
High Court of Judicature at Allahabad through Registrar General v. The State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors.
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What the Court ordered
Accordingly, we allow the appeal arising out of Special Leave Petition (Civil) No.26993 of 2017 and dismiss the Writ Petition (SB) No.1880 of 2017 on the file of the High Court filed by the direct recruits.
Judgment, page 23
From the headnote
U.P. Higher Judicial Service Rules, 1975 – Determination of seniority of promotees and direct recruits – Earlier, in absence of determination of vacancies for the period from 2002 till 2007, neither promotees were appointed in spite of availability of vacancies and eligibility nor direct recruitments were made – After the amendment of the Rules in 2007, recruitment process was initiated, and vacancies were worked out and advertisements were issued – Both promotees and direct recruits were appointed – After the appointments, the dispute of seniority cropped up – The direct recruits claimed…
Authorities it was built on
- 1990 Direct Recruit Class Ii Engineering Officers' Association and Ors. v. State of Maharashtra and Ors.
- 2002 All India Judges Association and Ors. v. Union of India and Ors.
- 1995 R.K. Sabharwal and Ors. v. The State of Punjab
- 2010 Ashok Pal Singh and Ors. v. U.P. Judicial Services Association and Ors.
- 2008 V.K. Srivastava & Ors. v. Govt. of U.P. & Anr.
- 1991 O.P. Garg and Ors. Etc. Etc. v. State of U.P. and Ors.
- 1987 P.K. Dixit and Ors. v. State of U.P. & Ors.
- 2001 Sri Kant Tripathi and Ors. v. State of U.P. and Ors.
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