Union Of India & Ors vs A. Durairaj (Dead) on 1 December, 2010
i) to quash the office order dated 15.10.2014 (Annexure A 1 supra) and directed the respondents to fix their pay at par with the candidates, who were selected in terms of advertisement no.02/2000 with arrears and also grant them notional seniority.
Though the representation made by the applicant for giving him seniority and notional pay fixation during the year 2001 could be rejected vide office order No.D/DDE/KBZ/2014/3512 dated 15.10.2014, in view of the law declared by the Honble Supreme Court in UOI & Ors V. A. Durairaj (dead) by LRs (JT 2011 (3) SC 254), the period of limitation will have to be reckoned from the date of the cause of action i.e. the year 2002, when the applicant was appointed to the post. The relevant excerpt of the judgment read thus:--