Seniority Among RIMS Employees To Be Based On Order Of Merit In Selection: Jharkhand High Court
Case: Dr. Kumari Sandhya @ Kumari Sandhya v. State of Jharkhand & Ors
Coram: Justices Sujit Narayan Prasad and Navneet Kumar
Case No.: LPA No 125 of 2022
Court Observation: “The seniority of the employees of the Institute in each category shall be determined by the order of merit in which they were selected for appointment to the Grade in question, those selected on an earlier occasion being ranked senior as a block to those selected later.; the preparation of seniority list of persons selected in the same selection committee would involve the steps.”
“Various steps have been given but we are concerned with the parameter fixed for seniority which is based upon the merit position of the appellant and the respondent no.4 and instructions as has been provided in the regulation, the seniority is to be determined by the order of merit in which they were selected for appointment,”
“The Single Judge, by taking into consideration the principle for deciding the seniority as available under Schedule IV(5) wherein the seniority is to be decided by the order of merit position in which they were selected for appointment, came to the conclusion that the seniority was fixed of the appellant keeping her below the respondent no.4, the same has not been faulted with.
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