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Equivalent post, the true criterion for equivalence is the status and the nature and responsibility of the duties attached to the two posts. Although the two posts of Principal and Reader are carried, on the same scale of pay, the post of Principal undoubt-edly has higher duties and responsibilities, Vice Chancellor L.N. Mithila University v. Dayanand Jha, AIR 1986 SC 1200 (1202): (1986) 3 SCC 7. [Bihar State Universities Act, 1976, s. 10(14)]...
Post-dated cheque
Post-dated cheque, are not invalid, but the banker should not pay such a cheque if presented before the date it bears. If therefore, a cheque dated on a Sunday is presented on the previous business day, it should be returned with the answer post-dated. A post-dated cheque, however, if presented at or after its ostensible date, should be paid though the banker knows it to be post-dated, and even if it has been presented before the date and refused payment, Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th Edn., Vol. 3(1), p. 143.Means a cheque must not be post-dated, that is, dated after the day on which it is presented for payment to the drawee branch. Post-dated cheques present for more difficulties to the banker than antedated cheques. There are practical difficulties rather than legal ones ..... But a cheque is generally post-dated because the drawer does not expect to have the funds to meet it until that date arrives. It is a mandate to the banker to the effect that it should not be paid before that...
Post office
Post office, the expression 'post office' includes every house, building, room, carriage or place used for the purposes of the Post Office, and every letter-box provided by the Post Office for the reception of postal articles. [(Indian) Post Office Act, 1898 (6 of 1898), s. 2(h)]The Government service of the carriage of letters, first established in 1643. Regulated by statutes 7 Wm. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 33; 1 & 2 Vict. cc. 97, 98; 3 & 4 Vict. c. 96 (the Post Office (Duties) Act, 1840, which established penny postage), and many other Acts, which are consolidated by the Post Office Act, 1908, as amended by subsequent Acts. Besides its monopoly in respect of letters, telegraphs and wireless telegraphy (q.v.) and telephones (q.v.), it carries on the business of a carrier of parcels, a savings bank, life assurance, the transmission of money by postal orders and money orders, and pays old age pensions. See also (English) Post Office and Telegraph Act, 1920; (English) Post Office (Parcels) Act, 192...
Officiating continuously in a senior post
Officiating continuously in a senior post, the ex-pression 'officiated continuously in a senior post' in Rule 3(3)(b) of the Seniority Rules is to be constructed to mean holding a senior post on officiating basis prior to substantive appointment on such senior post. Since a person cannot be treated as officiating on a post after he has been substantively appointed on that post, the said expression cannot be construed as referring to the period of officiation subsequent to the date of substantive appointment, O.S. Singh v. Union of India, (1996) 7 SCC 37 (44). [I.P.S. (Regulation of Seniority) Rules, 1954]...
Permanent post
Permanent post, 'permanent post' means a post carrying a definite rate of pay sanctioned without limit of time. Fundamental Rule 9 (30) define 'temporary post' as a post carrying a definite rate of pay sanctioned for a limited time. G.R. Luthra v. Lt. Governor, AIR 1974 SC 1908 (1910): (1975) 3 SCC 258: (1975) 1 SCR 974.Permanent post, carries a definite rate of pay without a limit of time, Prem Bihari Lal Saxena v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1965 All 406; Makar Dhwaaj Pal v. Neera Yadav, (1994) 2 SCC 741....
Post-graduate degree
Post-graduate degree, by 'post-graduate degree' is meant a Master's degree like the M.A. or M.Sc. and not a Bachelor's degree like the B.T. In other words, the expression connotes the successful completion of a course of studies at a higher level in any speciality, after the acquisition of a basic qualification at the graduate level. The B.T. course of studies, is open only to graduates and in a dictionary manner of speaking, the degree of 'Bachelor of Teaching' may be said to be a 'post' graduate degree in the same that the degree is obtainable only 'after graduation', Juthika Bhattacharya v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1976 SC 2534 (2536): (1976) 4 SCC 96.Post-graduate degree, has acquired, in the educatio-nal world, a special significance, a technical content. A Bachelor's degree like the B.T., or the LL.B. is not considered to be a postgraduate degree even though those degrees can be taken only after post-graduate. In the refined and elegant world of education, it is the holder of...
Unspecified specialists posts and unspecified posts
Unspecified specialists posts and unspecified posts, when a post from amongst unspecified Specialists' posts is converted to a specified post which means specified in the speciality in which a need has been felt from amongst those in the Specialists' grade belonging to that speciality and in order of their inter se seniority a promotion could be given, Dr. N.C. Singhal v. Union of India, AIR 1980 SC 1255 (1260): (1980) 3 SCC 44: (1980) 3 SCR 29....
Ex cadre post
Ex cadre post, means a post outside the cadre of posts comprised in a Service. Therefore, all posts in the Service, whether permanent or temporary, are generally regarded as Cadre Posts, O.P. Singla v. Union of India, (1984) 4 SCC 450: AIR 1984 SC 1595 (1603): (1985) 1 SCR 351....
Officer of the post office
Officer of the post office, the expression 'officer of the Post Office' includes any person employed in any business of the Post Office or on behalf of the Post Office. [Post Office Act, 1898, s. 2(e)]...
Post and vacancy
Post and vacancy, the expressions 'posts' and 'vacancies', often used in the executive instructions providing for reservations, are rather problemat-ical. The word 'post' means an appointment, job, office or employment. A position to which a person is appointed. 'Vacancy' means an unoccupied post or office. The plain meaning of the two expressions make it clear that there must be a 'post' in existence to enable the 'vacancy' to occur, R.K. Sabharwal v. State of Punjab, (1995) 2 SCC 745 (751)....
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