{"id":128159,"date":"1982-01-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1982-01-19T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/union-of-india-uoi-vs-pooranchandra-rao-on-20-january-1982"},"modified":"2018-07-28T09:47:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T04:17:31","slug":"union-of-india-uoi-vs-pooranchandra-rao-on-20-january-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/union-of-india-uoi-vs-pooranchandra-rao-on-20-january-1982","title":{"rendered":"Union Of India (Uoi) vs Pooranchandra Rao on 20 January, 1982"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Supreme Court of India<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Union Of India (Uoi) vs Pooranchandra Rao on 20 January, 1982<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 1982 (1) SCALE 514, (1982) 2 SCC 41<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: B Islam, E Venkataramiah<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>ORDER<\/p>\n<p>1. This appeal is filed against the judgment and order dated 11.12.1974 in Writ Appeal No. 324 of 1973 dismissing a L.P.A against the order of the learned single Judge of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh in Writ Petition No. 940 of 1972 issuing a writ in the nature of mandamus to the appellants directing them to interview the respondent for the post of Assistant Director of Census Operations in the office of the Director of Census Operations Hyderabad and to decide whether he could be appointed in the said post. The Division Bench, which heard the L.P.A. has held that the application of the respondent who was the petitioner in the writ petition had not been duly considered by the Union Public Service Commission and that there was violation of Article 14 and Article 16 of the Constitution. Ongoing through the judgment of the learned single Judge and of the Division Bench we are of the opinion that the finding that the Union Public Service Commission had not duly considered the case of the respondent No question of law arises for consideration. Division Bench of the High Court does not call The appeal is dismissed with costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court of India Union Of India (Uoi) vs Pooranchandra Rao on 20 January, 1982 Equivalent citations: 1982 (1) SCALE 514, (1982) 2 SCC 41 Bench: B Islam, E Venkataramiah ORDER 1. This appeal is filed against the judgment and order dated 11.12.1974 in Writ Appeal No. 324 of 1973 dismissing a L.P.A against the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supreme-court-of-india"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Union Of India (Uoi) vs Pooranchandra Rao on 20 January, 1982 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/union-of-india-uoi-vs-pooranchandra-rao-on-20-january-1982\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Union Of India (Uoi) vs Pooranchandra Rao on 20 January, 1982 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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