https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=276445 Where a service cadre is drawn from direct recruits and promotees, and the earlier quota and seniority arrangement collapses, the State may introduce a fresh roster-based seniority rule to restore administrative order. The rule for Income-tax Officers, operating from 16-1-1959, notionally allocated posts on a 1:1 basis and fixed inter se seniority between the two streams. The Court treated this as a rational substitute for a broken system, noting that officiating or ad hoc promotee appointments had left seniority unresolved. The ratio states that such a rule does not infringe Article 16 if it is fair, non-arbitrary, and designed to regularise the cadre. en-us Tue, 16 Apr 1974 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 12 Nov 2018 12:02:07 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=276445 Where a service cadre is drawn from direct recruits and promotees, and the earlier quota and seniority arrangement collapses, the State may introduce a fresh roster-based seniority rule to restore administrative order. The rule for Income-tax Officers, operating from 16-1-1959, notionally allocated posts on a 1:1 basis and fixed inter se seniority between the two streams. The Court treated this as a rational substitute for a broken system, noting that officiating or ad hoc promotee appointments had left seniority unresolved. The ratio states that such a rule does not infringe Article 16 if it is fair, non-arbitrary, and designed to regularise the cadre. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 16 Apr 1974 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=276445