SC Upholds Constitutional Validity of Consequential Seniority
On 10th May, 2019, the Supreme Court upheld the Constitutional validity of the Karnataka Extension of Consequential Seniority to Government Servants Promoted on the Basis of Reservation (to the Posts in the Civil Services of the State) Act 2018. The said enactment provided for consequential seniority to persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes promoted under the reservation policy of the State of Karnataka.
Background
- The Reservation Law, 2002 of Karnataka government was held to be unconstitutional in B K Pavitra case (February, 2017), on the ground that an exercise for determining ‘inadequacy of representation’, ‘backwardness’ and its ....
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