Supreme Court of India

Director General, Telecommunication & Anr. v. T.N. Peethambaram

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Reported as [1986] 3 S.C.R. 828
Decided 19 September 1986

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What the Court ordered

In the result, the decision of the Tribunal must be reversed.

Judgment, page 3

From the headnote

Telegraph Engineering Service (Group ' ') Recruitment Rules 1981-Rule 2 in Appendix 111-"minimum" pass mark-What it means. .;.( ' Rule 2 in Appendix Ill of the Telegraph Engineering Service (Group ' ') Recruitment Rules 1981 was interpreted by the appellant- .__,.- Department as requiring the candidates to secure 50% minimum pass ' ~ marks for the general candidates and 45% minimum pass marks for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in 'each' of the four sub- jects or items. On a challenge made by the respondent to this interpretation by the Department, the Administrative Tribunal

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