https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=172828 Educational qualification may be used to classify employees for promotion only where the distinction has a rational nexus with the duties of the higher post. The SC upheld the Tamil Nadu rule amendment giving preference to directly recruited Assistants over non-graduate promotee Assistants for promotion as Deputy Tehsildar, finding that preference was not irrational or arbitrary for that group. However, the same preference could not be applied mechanically to promotee Assistants who were already graduates or postgraduates, because they stood on the same educational footing as direct recruits. The amendment was therefore sustained for non-graduate promotees but read down as inapplicable to graduate and postgraduate promotee Assistants. en-us Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 05 Aug 2025 16:45:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=172828 Educational qualification may be used to classify employees for promotion only where the distinction has a rational nexus with the duties of the higher post. The SC upheld the Tamil Nadu rule amendment giving preference to directly recruited Assistants over non-graduate promotee Assistants for promotion as Deputy Tehsildar, finding that preference was not irrational or arbitrary for that group. However, the same preference could not be applied mechanically to promotee Assistants who were already graduates or postgraduates, because they stood on the same educational footing as direct recruits. The amendment was therefore sustained for non-graduate promotees but read down as inapplicable to graduate and postgraduate promotee Assistants. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=172828