https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=172862 A reversion order is unlawful when the appointing authority acts on an erroneous assumption about its power and uses that power for an extraneous purpose outside its lawful object. The Court also treated the reversal of service status as discriminatory where the affected employees lost the chance to continue as wireless operators while juniors and less meritorious persons were retained or appointed, making the action inconsistent with Articles 14 and 16. On the service-status question, employees who continued doing wireless operator work were entitled to be treated in that capacity for practical service purposes, with their allocation position left intact except for the quashed reversions. en-us Mon, 24 Jul 1972 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 02 Sep 2015 15:46:57 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=172862 A reversion order is unlawful when the appointing authority acts on an erroneous assumption about its power and uses that power for an extraneous purpose outside its lawful object. The Court also treated the reversal of service status as discriminatory where the affected employees lost the chance to continue as wireless operators while juniors and less meritorious persons were retained or appointed, making the action inconsistent with Articles 14 and 16. On the service-status question, employees who continued doing wireless operator work were entitled to be treated in that capacity for practical service purposes, with their allocation position left intact except for the quashed reversions. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 24 Jul 1972 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=172862