https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=170920 Where service rules prescribe cadre-wise seniority by length of continuous service, a promotee becomes senior in the higher cadre from the date of regular promotion and satisfactory completion of probation. Earlier reservation-in-promotion rulings could not be used to reopen seniority already fixed under the governing cadre-wise rules, because those decisions were confined to different factual and legal settings and could not override statutory seniority provisions. A belated writ challenge to long-settled promotions was also rejected as barred by delay and laches, since settled service positions are not ordinarily disturbed after prolonged inaction. en-us Wed, 07 May 1997 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 30 Jun 2015 13:20:54 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=170920 Where service rules prescribe cadre-wise seniority by length of continuous service, a promotee becomes senior in the higher cadre from the date of regular promotion and satisfactory completion of probation. Earlier reservation-in-promotion rulings could not be used to reopen seniority already fixed under the governing cadre-wise rules, because those decisions were confined to different factual and legal settings and could not override statutory seniority provisions. A belated writ challenge to long-settled promotions was also rejected as barred by delay and laches, since settled service positions are not ordinarily disturbed after prolonged inaction. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 07 May 1997 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=170920