State Reorganisation Act, 1956

The Rajasthan government created 554 Tax Assistant posts and filled 80% through direct recruitment (DR) and 20% through promotion of departmental staff (DP). Advertisements for DRs were issued on 25‑01‑2011 and for DPs on 24‑05‑2011; however, DP appointment letters were issued before those of DRs. The seniority list pu…

Hans Raj, a clerk who began service in 1949, was prematurely retired by the Deputy Commissioner of Bhatinda on 20 August 1975 under Rule 3(1)(a) of the Punjab Civil Services (Premature Retirement) Rules, 1975, on the ground that he had completed more than 25 years of service. He challenged the order, arguing that the b…

The petitioners, secondary school teachers in Karnataka who were originally allotted from the former State of Hyderabad, claimed that the pay‑scale disparity persisting from 1 January 1957 to 31 December 1969 violated Article 14 of the Constitution. The State had, based on the Justice Tukol Commission report, equalised…

The case concerned the tenure of members of the Sikh Judicial Commission under the Sikh Gurdwaras Act, 1925, and the validity of several notifications issued by the Punjab Government and the Central Government. The appellant, Kashmir Singh, challenged the removal of commission members and the re‑constitution notificati…

The petitioners, employees of various public sector undertakings in Bihar, sought enforcement of their fundamental right to life under Article 21 after prolonged non-payment of salaries, which had resulted in several deaths. The Supreme Court examined whether the States of Bihar and Jharkhand, as shareholders and contr…

The appellant claimed ownership of 17.74 acres in Alathur Taluk, asserting that the land was a rubber plantation and therefore exempt from vesting under the Kerala Private Forests (Vesting and Assignment) Act, 1971. The Forest Tribunal initially held the land was not a private forest, but after a remand the Tribunal ag…

The respondent, Abdul Rahman Khan, was appointed as a Lower Division Clerk in the erstwhile Nizam State on 10 March 1938 and later absorbed into the Central Government on 1 April 1950 as an Upper Division Clerk. The dispute centered on whether he should retire at the age of 58, as prescribed by Fundamental Rule 56(a) a…