Supreme Court of India

S. Gopa Kumar v. State of Kerala & Kerala Public Service Commission

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Reported as [1982] 1 S.C.R. 744
Bench R.S. Pathak J.
Decided 21 September 1981

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Practice and Procedure-lnadvertant error in the order of Supreme Court­ lf could be corrected. For selection of candidates for the post of junior engineers in the Public Works Department, the State Public Service Commission prescribed a written test in which persons qualified in CiviJ Engineering could answer questions in category I and those qualified in Mechanical Engineering could answer questions in category II, both of which were contained in the same question paper. After the test and interview but before the common rank list was prepared some candidates impugned the method of selection

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