Important Case laws regarding rule of law in India

Case Law: A.K. Kraipak v. Union of India

AIR 1970 SC 150
Facts:- This petition was brought by the gazatted officers of the state of Jammu and
Kashmir serving in the forest department as Conservators, Divisional officers and
Assistant conservators. They believed that they were not given preferences in the
selection of Indian Forests Services constituted in 1966 under section 3(1) of the
All India Services Act, 1951. They requested the honble court to quash a
notification issued by the government of India regarding the appointment which
the felt that was against the structure the article 14 and 16 of the Constitution.1

1 Para 1 of the judgment written