https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=278993 Statutory seniority rules fixing seniority by date of appointment controlled the cadre, and executive orders could not substitute a different basis by treating Emergency Commissioned Officers and Short Service Regular Commissioned Officers as earlier entrants; such a change required amendment of the rules under the constitutional rule-making power. The orders were therefore invalid and created no enforceable seniority right. The discrimination claim also failed because officers in medical and engineering services were not similarly situated: they remained in the same field in Army and civilian service and their rules had been amended, whereas the petitioners entered a non-technical service governed by unamended rules. Parity was thus unavailable. en-us Thu, 14 Mar 1991 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 27 Feb 2019 18:10:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=278993 Statutory seniority rules fixing seniority by date of appointment controlled the cadre, and executive orders could not substitute a different basis by treating Emergency Commissioned Officers and Short Service Regular Commissioned Officers as earlier entrants; such a change required amendment of the rules under the constitutional rule-making power. The orders were therefore invalid and created no enforceable seniority right. The discrimination claim also failed because officers in medical and engineering services were not similarly situated: they remained in the same field in Army and civilian service and their rules had been amended, whereas the petitioners entered a non-technical service governed by unamended rules. Parity was thus unavailable. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 14 Mar 1991 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=278993