NDLI: Shriram Tomar and Another Etc. Vs. Praveen Kumar Jaggi and Others

Content Provider	Supreme Court of India
e-ISSN	30484839
Language	English
Access Restriction	NDLI
Subject Keyword	Seniority-cum-merit Criteria for promotion Promotion Service Law
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Law Judgement
Jurisdiction	India
Case(s) Referred	Referred Case 0 Referred Case 1
Case Type	Appeal
Court	Supreme Court of India
Disposal Nature	Appeal Allowed
Headnote	Service Law: Promotion – Post of Junior Management Scale II – Criteria for promotion – Seniority-cum-merit – Mode of selection based on written test, interview and assessment of performance appraisal reports for preceding five years as officer in Scale I – The candidates were to appear in written test comprising of two parts – As per the Rules, those candidates who secured minimum 40% of marks in each part were to be called for interview – As regards interview and performance appraisal reports for preceding five years service, under the rules, no minimum qualifying marks were provided – However, Selection Committee fixed bench mark of minimum 12 marks to be secured in the interview as well as performance appraisal (each) and decided that only those candidates who secured in all 24 marks in minimum in the interview as well as the performance appraisal would be considered for promotion – Accordingly, based on this criteria promotion order was made – Writ petitioners challenged the same on the ground that the three successful candidates were junior to them and since writ petitioners obtained more than 40% marks in the written test and were senior, they ought to have been promoted to the post of Scale II – The promotions were also challenged on the ground that further fixing the qualifying marks to be obtained in the interview and the performance appraisal reports, viz., 12 minimum marks each to be obtained in the interview and the performance appraisal reports and fixing such a benchmark would violate the principle of seniority-cum-merit – The Single Judge of High Court held that fixing the qualifying marks/benchmark to obtain minimum 12 marks in the interview and the performance appraisal was not permissible and it defeated the principle of seniority-cum-merit and, therefore, directed to prepare a fresh promotion list by prescribing the minimum necessary cut off merit marks out of 100 so that the rule of senioritycum-merit could be made applicable – The Division Bench, not only dismissed the appeals, but also set aside the directions issued by the Single Judge and directed the establishment to conduct fresh exercise for promotion – Hence the instant appeal – Held: The Single Judge as well as the Division Bench erred in holding that fixing the qualifying marks to be obtained in the interview and the performance appraisal reports would violate the principle of seniority-cum-merit – As the promotion to the post of Junior Management Scale II is to be made on the basis of seniority-cummerit, the only requirement is that after it is found that the candidates have possessed the minimum necessary merit, namely, minimum 40% qualifying marks in the written test and minimum 12 marks each out of 20 marks each in interview and the performance appraisal reports respectively, the candidates would be promoted in the order of seniority, irrespective of anyone among them having obtained more marks – In view of this, orders of Single Judge and Division Bench of High Court are quashed and respondent-authority is directed to prepare a fresh select list for promotion accordingly – Regional Rural Banks (Appointment and Promotion of Officers and other Employees) Rules, 1998.
Judge	Hon'ble Mr. Justice M.R. Shah
Neutral Citation	2019 INSC 498
Petitioner	Shriram Tomar And Another Etc.
Respondent	Praveen Kumar Jaggi And Others
SCR	[2019] 6 S.C.R. 590
Judgement Date	2019-04-09
Case Number	3603

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