Service -- Recruitment - Judicial review - Equivalence of a qualification is not a matter which can be determined in exercise of power of judicial review - Whether a particular qualification should or should not be regarded as equivalent is a matter for State as the recruiting authority to determine - Assessment of expediency, advisability or utility of such prescription..........
Service -- Recruitment of pharmacist - Minimum qualification - Prescription of eligibility criteria of 10+2 with Diploma in Pharmacy by State cannot be said to be arbitrary or irrational - There is no absolute exclusion of graduate or postgraduate degree holders - They remain eligible, provided they possess essential qualification of Diploma in Pharmacy - No..........
Service -- Appointment - Although recommendations made by Public Service Commission are not binding and hence, may or may not be accepted by Government of State - However, State government has no authority to appoint anyone not recommended by Public Service Commission...........
Service -- Appointment - Candidate figuring in waiting list cannot claim a better right than those who find place in select/merit list - He/she, therefore, can claim only as much as governing rules relating to recruitment enable or permit, more particularly when life of a waiting/reserve list is limited...........
Service -- Appointment - Candidate in waiting/reserve list - Illegality in recommending some of candidates figuring in reserve list could not have been made basis for issuance of a writ of mandamus citing Art.14 of Constitution...........
Service -- Release of offender on probation in criminal proceeding - Does not obliterate the stigma of conviction...........
Service -- Cancellation of appointment - Non-disclosure of pendency of criminal cases - Investigation of case was active against respondent at the time of filling up of forms so also at the time of affidavit - Acquittal/dropping of proceedings against him were subsequent developments - Subsequent acquittal or fact that he attempted to come clean about suppression of facts..........
Provident Fund Act, 1925, Section 4(1)(b), 4(1)(c)(i), 5, General Provident Fund (Central Service) Rules, 1960, Rule 33(ii) -- General Provident Fund (GPF) - Release of funds to nominee - Nominee has primacy to receive the amounts standing in the name of a depositor upon his death - However, if amount in provident fund account exceeds more than Rs.5,000, nominee is..........
Service -- Departmental enquiry after superannuation in absence of any governing rules and regulations - Pension rules not applicable in absence of conscious decision of Board for applicability of such rules to its employees - Corporation had no jurisdiction to institute departmental proceedings against appellant for the alleged misconduct and to direct recovery after..........
Service -- Allocation of cadre - Candidate having qualified the Preliminary Examination availing relaxed standard becoming eligible for Main Examination must be considered against reserved vacancies only and cannot be considered on general/unreserved vacancies for the purpose of cadre allocation...........
