Supreme Court of India

P. Mohanan Pillai v. State of Kerala and Ors.

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Bench S.B. Sinha and Markandey Ka Tju JJ.
Decided 23 February 2007

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Service Law: Recruitment-Criteria for-Validity-Recruitment to the post of Watchman/Messenger/Attender-Candidate topping the written exam not selected-Challenge to-Held: There being no Statutory Rules governing the recruitment, practice prevailing when the vacancy arose was to be adhered to-Zone of consideration was enlarged, cut-off marks were lowered and I 00 marks were ftxed for oral interview after publication of result of written examination, without assigning good and sufficient reasons, thus, policy decision taken was arbitrary-Also nature of duties on which interview marks are…

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