SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR TO RAKSHA MANTRI versus V.M. JOSEPH

Eligibility for promotion depends on the total qualifying service, including service rendered as a permanent employee prior to transfer, and cannot be limited by the fact that an employee was placed at the bottom of a new seniority list upon transfer at his own request; exclusion of such period is unjustified.

Parties: Appellant: Scientific Advisor to Raksha Mantri; Respondent: V.M. Joseph
Jurisdiction: India
Judgment Date: 14 January 1989
Procedural Posture: Civil Appeal / Supreme Court Appellate Decision
Outcome: Appeal dismissed
Legal Topics: Promotion Eligibility, Seniority, Transfer on Compassionate Ground

Service Law Promotion Eligibility Seniority Transfer on Compassionate Ground

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Parties

Scientific Advisor to Raksha Mantri

Appellant

V.M. Joseph

Respondent

Procedural Posture

Civil Appeal / Supreme Court Appellate Decision

Legal Issues

1 Whether period of service rendered as permanent employee prior to transfer on compassionate grounds can be excluded in determining eligibility for promotion
2 Whether eligibility for promotion and seniority are distinct

Ratio Decidendi

Court Disposition

Appeal dismissed

Orders

Direction to consider respondent's service prior to transfer as qualifying service for promotion eligibility
Review Departmental Promotion Committee to consider respondent for ad-hoc or regular promotion to Senior Store Keeper and Senior Store Keeper Grade-I with effect from date when three years of regular service is completed, including prior service