https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=175833 Employees who lacked the prescribed qualification for promotion could not claim a time-bound higher pay scale merely by completing the required length of service. The Supreme Court confined the benefit under the 1990 order to directly recruited Assistant Engineers and to promotees who were statutorily treated as direct recruits because they met the qualification and were promoted against the reserved quota. The legal fiction in the note to the order was held to be limited, and the object of preventing stagnation did not create a blanket entitlement for ineligible promotees. The Board's rejection of the claim was upheld, with Articles 14 and 16 used to reinforce that unequals cannot be treated alike. en-us Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 07 Dec 2015 14:49:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=175833 Employees who lacked the prescribed qualification for promotion could not claim a time-bound higher pay scale merely by completing the required length of service. The Supreme Court confined the benefit under the 1990 order to directly recruited Assistant Engineers and to promotees who were statutorily treated as direct recruits because they met the qualification and were promoted against the reserved quota. The legal fiction in the note to the order was held to be limited, and the object of preventing stagnation did not create a blanket entitlement for ineligible promotees. The Board's rejection of the claim was upheld, with Articles 14 and 16 used to reinforce that unequals cannot be treated alike. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=175833