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SANJEEV PRAKASH SHARMA
Satnam – Appellant
Versus
Director Agriculture, Punjab – Respondent
| Table of Content |
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| 1. challenge to seniority placement and promotion. (Para 1 , 2) |
| 2. respondents argue about mutual transfer's impact on seniority. (Para 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7) |
| 3. court analysis on forfeiting seniority acknowledgment. (Para 8 , 9 , 10) |
| 4. writ petition dismissed. (Para 11 , 12) |
JUDGMENT
Sanjeev Prakash Sharma, J. (Oral)
The petitioner by way of this writ petition has challenged his placement in the seniority list in respect of service rendered by him from 1970 to 1979, resulting in the petitioner being denied his promotion.
2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was initially appointed on 16.01.1968, as Beldar, at District Gurdaspur. Thereafter he was transferred from Soil Conservation Scheme to ARC Scheme, at Gurdaspur, which was converted to Ground Water Cell Scheme at Gurdaspur. In the seniority list which was published on 18.04.1974, his name was correctly shown at Sr. No.31, mentioning the date of appointment as 16.01.1968 and he was further transferred to Ground Water Cell Scheme on 20.05.1974 at Gurdaspur. On 17.07.1979, the petitioner was transferred from Ground Water Cell Scheme to other works of the Agriculture Department, under the Chief A
A request for mutual transfer with knowledge that it forfeits seniority bars subsequent claims to prior service benefits in seniority.
An employee who waives his original seniority in one unit and requests re-fixation of seniority in another unit cannot subsequently seek re-fixation of seniority counter to the seniority fixed based ....
Employees transferred at their own request must forfeit previous seniority and accept the lowest rank in the new department, as stipulated by service regulations.
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