Supreme Court of India
State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors. v. Atul Kumar Dwivedi & Ors
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What the Court ordered
We hold that the decision by the Andhra Pradesh High Court in the case of CIT v.
Judgment, page 75
From the headnote
Service Law: Recruitment/Selection – Process of ‘scaling of marks’ or ‘normalization’ adopted in selection of candidates for the State Police Force – Correctness of – Appropriate stage for application of normalization – Held: On facts, more than 6.3 lakh applicants had submitted online application forms whose candidature was tested in written examinations held in 29 different batches over 12 days – There was variability on account of the fact that the candidates were tested on different dates over 12 days through different sets of question papers – The Uttar Pradesh Police Recruitment and…
Authorities it was built on
- 2007 Sanja Y Singh & Anr. v. U.P. Public Service Commission Allahabad and Anr.
- 1999 Commissioner of Income Tax, Bangalore v. Venkateswara Hatcheries (p) Ltd. Etc. Etc.
- 2005 U.P. State Road Transport Corporation through its Chairman v. Omaditya Verma and Ors.
- 2003 U.P. Public Services Commission v. Subhash Chandra Dixit and Ors.
- 1956 Shamrao Vishnu Parulekar v. The District Magistrate, Thana
- 2019 State of Orissa & Anr. v. Dhirendra Sundar Das & Ors.
Where later benches applied it
- 2024 Deependra Yadav and Others v. State of Madhya Pradesh and Others
- 2026 S. Senthil Kumaran Bose v. The State of Tamil Nadu
Of those, 1 referred to · 1 mentioned
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