Impleadment of Few Affected Employees is Sufficient Compliance of Principle of Joinder of Parties: SC

Ajay Kumar Shukla Vs Arvind Rai (Supreme Court of India) The present case is a case of preparation of seniority list and that too in a situation where the appellants (original writ petitioners) did not even know the marks obtained by them or their proficiency in the examination conducted by the Commission. The challenge was on the ground that the Rules on the preparation of seniority list had not been followed. There were 18 private respondents arrayed to the writ petition. The original petitioners could not have known who all would be affected. They had thus broadly impleaded 18 of such Junio...