Supreme Court of India

Ajit Kr. Bhuyan and Others v. Debajit Das and Others

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Bench A.K. Sikri and Ashok Bhushan JJ.
Decided 23 October 2018

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that it was virtually a case of fraud, at least on three counts.

Judgment, page 15

From the headnote

Service Law – Promotion – Manipulation of the system to give out of turn promotion – Respondent no.1 was appointed as Asstt. Engineer in PWD on 30.09.1996, thereafter, he was promoted to the post of Asstt. Executive Engineer in the year 2002 – Subsequently, a post for ex-cadre Executive Engineer was created and respondent no.1 was promoted to the said post by notification dated 02.04.2005 – Later, respondent no.1 was granted regular promotion by encadering him as Executive Engineer on recommendation of the selection committee on 27.07.2005 – It was alleged that there were only 10 vacancies…

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