https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=302479 Senioruty in service law cannot be claimed from a date when an employee is not yet borne in the cadre, and direct recruits ordinarily acquire seniority from the date of appointment rather than from the commencement of the recruitment process. The earlier contrary principle was overruled only prospectively, with protection for settled seniority already based on that view. On the facts, the requisitions for the petitioners were issued after the other officers had already joined the commissionerate, so the petitioners could not rank above them in the seniority list. en-us Mon, 19 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0530 Sun, 29 May 2022 21:23:44 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=302479 Senioruty in service law cannot be claimed from a date when an employee is not yet borne in the cadre, and direct recruits ordinarily acquire seniority from the date of appointment rather than from the commencement of the recruitment process. The earlier contrary principle was overruled only prospectively, with protection for settled seniority already based on that view. On the facts, the requisitions for the petitioners were issued after the other officers had already joined the commissionerate, so the petitioners could not rank above them in the seniority list. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 19 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=302479