https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173506 The statutory scheme for the integrated Orissa Administrative Service continued to recognise seniority by year of allotment, meaning the year to which identified vacancies were attached. Cadre merger in 1973 did not, by itself, repeal the recruitment rules or make that principle unworkable, so direct recruits appointed later against earlier vacancies could be allotted to the relevant year. The validation legislation was described as preserving that seniority approach and balancing competing claims. Seniority was treated as not being a fundamental right, no vested right to a particular rank was shown, and the enactment was not established as arbitrary or discriminatory under Article 14. The absence of advertisement for some vacancies also did not invalidate appointments where no vested right to selection existed. en-us Tue, 07 Oct 2003 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 16 Feb 2018 11:12:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173506 The statutory scheme for the integrated Orissa Administrative Service continued to recognise seniority by year of allotment, meaning the year to which identified vacancies were attached. Cadre merger in 1973 did not, by itself, repeal the recruitment rules or make that principle unworkable, so direct recruits appointed later against earlier vacancies could be allotted to the relevant year. The validation legislation was described as preserving that seniority approach and balancing competing claims. Seniority was treated as not being a fundamental right, no vested right to a particular rank was shown, and the enactment was not established as arbitrary or discriminatory under Article 14. The absence of advertisement for some vacancies also did not invalidate appointments where no vested right to selection existed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 07 Oct 2003 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173506