seniority list Archives

Inside Gauhati HC order quashing In-Charge Headmaster’s appointment; highlighting appointments to be based on seniority-cum-efficiency principle

Since the selection for the post of regular Head Master, as mandated by Clause 3 of the Notification dated 2-3-2010 is made strictly based on seniority-cum-efficiency, then the logical corollary that flows from the aforesaid proposition, is that the appointment of an In-Charge Head Master must also adhere the same seniority-cum-efficiency principle.

Case Briefs High Courts

Employees must fulfill requisite qualification for promotion to the post of ‘Assistant Manager’ in State Transport Corporation: Madras HC upholds seniority list

“In terms of Rule 60(d)(i) of the Common Service Rules, when the appointment is to the post in the grade of “Assistant Manager (Legal)”, one must have five years of experience in the feeder category viz., the post of “Senior Superintendent”

Case Briefs Supreme Court

[Military Services] “Much water has flown in the Ganges”; SC expresses dismay over appointments made from 1983 select panel after a lapse of 4-5 years

“No one has questioned their appointments…more than 34 years have rolled by and much water has flown in the Ganges and persons have later promoted to their promotional posts and few of them have retired.”

Case Briefs High Courts

Petition to unsettle the seniority list dismissed for being ‘hopelessly belated’

Delhi High Court: A Division Bench comprising of Hima Kohli and Rekha Palli, JJ., dismissed a writ petition filed seeking directions to