https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=244950 An unchallenged tribunal decision granting merger-based seniority could not later be reopened, so the petitioners were barred from disputing the revised seniority position or its promotional consequences. The Court also treated deemed appointment in Junior Administrative Grade as qualifying approved service for promotion to Senior Administrative Grade, because the service rules required service in the grade after selection and did not insist on actual physical working. On that basis, notional service legally conferred counted towards eligibility, and the promotions based on that service were upheld. en-us Tue, 01 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 08:13:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=244950 An unchallenged tribunal decision granting merger-based seniority could not later be reopened, so the petitioners were barred from disputing the revised seniority position or its promotional consequences. The Court also treated deemed appointment in Junior Administrative Grade as qualifying approved service for promotion to Senior Administrative Grade, because the service rules required service in the grade after selection and did not insist on actual physical working. On that basis, notional service legally conferred counted towards eligibility, and the promotions based on that service were upheld. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 01 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=244950