Case Law Analysis
|Supreme Court of India
Article 14 & 16 | Arbitrary Denial of Promotion to Senior Employee Despite Parity with Peers Violates Equality: SC
The Supreme Court ruled that denying promotion to a senior employee with 28 years of service, while granting it to similarly situated peers despite identical educational deficiencies, constitutes arbitrary classification under Articles 14 and 16. This sets a critical precedent for promotional fairness in public and cooperative service structures where rigid qualification norms cannot override substantive equality and seniority-based equity.