T.THANGAVELU vs U.O.I. — C.A. No. 1513/2000

Case Summary: T. Thangavelu & Ors. v. Union of India (C.A. No. 1513/2000) The Supreme Court allowed the appellants' appeal regarding inter se seniority of railway employees at Diesel Loco Shed. The Court held that seniority should be reckoned from the date of permanent regular absorption (March 1982 for appellants, 1985 for private respondents), not from when substitutes acquired temporary status. The Court set aside the Central Administrative Tribunal's order that had granted seniority to private respondents from their temporary status date, finding it contrary to Railway Establishment Manual paragraphs 302, 1512, and 1515, which explicitly exclude temporary service periods from seniority calculations. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.