Service -- Selection process - Challenge as to - When candidate is not aware of criteria of selection under which he was subjected in process and said criteria for first time is published along with final result, he cannot be estopped from challenging criteria of selection and entire process of selection...........
Service -- Selection process - When number of candidates who applied against certain posts is enormously large, short listing has always been treated as an accepted mode to correctly value work and merit of candidate...........
Service -- Selection process - Change of criteria - Where change in criteria is affected and altered arbitrarily with object of dow, grading and not up-grading standards of selection, High Court did not commit any error in not upholding change of criteria effected after start of selection process...........
Service -- Selection process - Post of Physical Training Instructor (PTI) - Change of criteria - Power to devise mode of selection and fix criteria was entrusted to Commission - There is no rules or resolution of Commission by which power of Commission to devise mode of selection and fix criteria have been delegated to any other member including Chairman - Alteration of..........
Service -- Selection process - Post of Physical Training Instructor (PTI) - Change of criteria - Non-holding of written examination - Decision of Chairman not to hold written examination was claimed to have been taken due to `administrative reasons' - However, what were `administrative reasons' never disclosed or brought on record by Commission - Said decision for not..........
Service -- Selection process - Post of Physical Training Instructor (PTI) - Change of criteria - Where Chairman is incompetently altered the criteria, which affects the merit selection, allegations made in petition against Commission in conducting selection are allegations of malice in law and not malice-i, fact - Therefore, allegations in petition regarding allocation of..........
Service -- Fresh selection - Post of Physical Training Instructor (PTI) - When the selection for 1983 posts of PTI was set aside and High Court directed to hold a fresh selection, selection process was to be continued and completed under orders of High Court - Since there is no defect in advertisement and arbitrariness crept from the stage of scrapping written examination..........
Service -- Fresh selection - When continuation of a person on a post is by virtue of an interim order, continuation is always subject to outcome of litigation - Since selection process set aside, displacement of said persons from their post is inevitable consequence...........
Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, Section 17A -- Investigation - Prior approval of Government - Allegation that revenue officers hatched a conspiracy to facilitate fraudulent sale in discharge of their official duties - Before initiating any inquiry against public servants under the Act, prior approval of Government was a sine qua non and FIR could not have registered..........
Land Acquisition Act, 1894, Section 4(1), 5A -- Acquisition of land - Acquisition proceedings - Right to file objection - S.5A of the Act confers a substantive right in favour of a person whose lands are to be acquired - If objection to acquisition proceedings are raised, same have to be adjudicated by indicating brief reasons which can demonstrate objective application of..........
