Uttar Pradesh Government Servants Seniority Rules, 1991

The case concerned the seniority of Assistant Engineers in Uttar Pradesh who were initially appointed on an ad‑hoc basis in 1985 and later regularised in December 1989 under the Uttar Pradesh Regularisation of Ad hoc Appointments Rules (1979, 1989). The petitioners challenged a seniority list prepared in 2016 that coun…

The Supreme Court examined the constitutional validity of Section 3(7) of the Uttar Pradesh Public Servants (Reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other Backward Classes) Act, 1994 and Rule 8‑A of the Uttar Pradesh Government Servants Seniority Rules, 1991 (as inserted by the 2007 amendment), which pro…

The case concerned two groups of directly recruited Deputy Jailors in Uttar Pradesh – one appointed in 1991 through the Subordinate Services Selection Commission and another in 1994 through the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission. A seniority list issued in 1995 placed the 1991 appointees senior to the 1994 appoint…