https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=308160 The SC dismissed the challenge and upheld the High Court's decision. It held that inter se seniority of directly recruited officers is to be determined by the combined merit parameters used at selection (written, oral, etc.), not by roster points, since the roster serves only to ensure reservation quotas and does not fix seniority among those appointed simultaneously. The Court confirmed that merit-cum-seniority promotions allow comparative merit to override pure seniority. No jurisdictional or other infirmity was found in the impugned judgment, and the petition was dismissed. en-us Mon, 27 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 13 Sep 2025 12:34:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=308160 The SC dismissed the challenge and upheld the High Court's decision. It held that inter se seniority of directly recruited officers is to be determined by the combined merit parameters used at selection (written, oral, etc.), not by roster points, since the roster serves only to ensure reservation quotas and does not fix seniority among those appointed simultaneously. The Court confirmed that merit-cum-seniority promotions allow comparative merit to override pure seniority. No jurisdictional or other infirmity was found in the impugned judgment, and the petition was dismissed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 27 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=308160