Supreme Court of India
Malook Singh and Others v. State of Punjab and Others
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2 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.
What the Court ordered
We hold that (A) Once an incumbent is appointed to a post according to a rule, his seniority has to counted from the date of appointment and not according to date of his confirmation.
Judgment, page 14
From the headnote
Service Law – Determination of seniority – Ad hoc service, if counted for – Doctrine of res judicata vis-à-vis law of precedent – In view of an earlier writ petition filed by appellants-ad hoc employees against regularly recruited employees appointed after them, seniority list was redrawn and the appellants were granted seniority w.e.f. dates of their initial appointment by including the period of ad hoc service – Fixation of seniority challenged by private respondents who were not party to the earlier writ petition but were adversely affected – Allowed by Single Judge – Appeals, dismissed by…
Authorities it was built on
- 1990 Direct Recruit Class Ii Engineering Officers' Association and Ors. v. State of Maharashtra and Ors.
- 2007 Union of India and Anr. v. Central Electrical & Mechanical Engineering Service (ce & Mes) Group A (direct Recruits) Association, Cpwd and Ors.
- 2019 The State of Rajasthan v. Nemi Chand Mahela and Others
Where later benches applied it
- 2026 State of U.P. v. Jai Bir Singh
- 2023 Experion Developers Private Limited v. Himanshu Dewan and Sonali Dewan and Others
Of those, 2 mentioned
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