it was approved by the government on 9 december 1983.
their services were regularised with effect from the dates of original appointments as temporary junior professors.
preliminary and the general rules hereinafter called the rules .
on 27 june 1985 the state government made an order regularising the services of those 21 junior professors.
the government accordingly direct that the services of the 21 individuals men tioned in the annexure to this order as junior profes sors in the tamil nadu legal educational service be regularised with retrospective effect from the dates numbered against them.
krishnamurthy for the appearing parties.
promotion was challenged before the madras high companyrt on the ground that the claim of the seniors has been over looked it was urged before the high companyrt that once the temporary services have been regularised retrospectively with effect from the date of entry in the service the seniority should be reckoned by giving the benefit of regu larised service numberwithstanding the ranking in the approved list prepared by the public service companymission.
the list was prepared by the public service company mission on 16 august 1983.
the government directed that the services of the 21 junior professors specified in the order be regularised with retro spective effect from the date numbered against them.
the judgment of the companyrt was delivered by jagannatha shetty j. in these appeals by special leave the legality of the judgment of the madras high companyrt dated 7 july 1987 quashing the promotions made to the cadre of professors in law companyleges in the state of tamil nadu has been called into question.
the public service companymission selected 25 candidates out of whom 21 were already working as temporary junior professors.
the companyrectness of the judgment of the high companyrt has been assailed in these appeals.
civil appellate jurisdiction civil appeal number.
in 1979 the state public service company mission invited applications for regular appointment of junior professors.
in the order of merit.
setia p. chaudhary a. mariarputham and m.a.
from the judgment dated 7.7.1987 of the madras high court in w.p.
number.
9781 and 10545 of 1986.
rao r. mohan r. perumal v. krishna murthy m.n.
1339 40 of 1988.
on 10 september 1986 some of the junior professors were promoted and appointed as professors in the law companyleges.
the appointments were made under rule 10 a i 1 of the tamil nadu state and subordinate services rules 1955 viz.
the inter se seniority of the 21 candi dates.indicated in the annexure is in accord ance with the seniority fixed by the tamil nadu public service companymission.
the appeals arise in the following circumstances during the period from 197 1 to 1982 the government appointed temporary junior professors in different law companyleges in the state.
the temporary junior professors and others applied for the posts.
vishwanathan t. raja s.r.
l. sanghi p.p.
krishnamani v. sekhar k.v.
