Supreme Court of India
Sachin Kumar & Ors. v. Delhi Subordinate Service Selection Board (dsssb) & Ors.
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What the Court ordered
For the above reasons, we order and direct: (i) The facts which have come to light during the course of the hearing of this batch of SLPs reflect on the serious flaws in the process which was conducted by DSSSB. DSSSB and GNCTD must now take adequate measures to ensure against the recurrence of such instances which erode the credibility of and public confidence in the recruitment process.
Judgment, page 57
From the headnote
Service Law – Recruitment – Examination – Irregularities in – An advertisement dated 26.12.2009 issued for 231 vacancies for the post of Head Clerk [(Grade 2) (DASS)] in GNCTD – 62,056 application received – 8,224 appeared in Tier-I Examination – Results were declared in 2014 – Shortlisted candidates appeared in Tier-II Examination in the year 2015 – Several complaints were received regarding leakage of question papers, mass cheating, allotment of common examination centre and rooms to members of the same family, in the conduct of both the Tier-l and Tier-ll examinations – Two Committees were…
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- 1996 Pramod Lahudas Meshram v. State of Maharashtra and Ors.
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