Supreme Court of India

Durgacharan Misra v. State of Orissa & Ors.

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Reported as [1987] 3 S.C.R. 1097
Bench O. Chinnappa Reddy J.
Decided 27 August 1987

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the Selection Committee has no power to prescribe the mini­ mum marks which a candidate should obtain in the aggre­ gate different from the minimum already prescribed by the Rules in its Appendix.

Judgment, page 8

From the headnote

Orissa Judicial Service Rules, 1964: Rules 16-19: Judicial Service-Probationary Munsifs-Recruitment of-Viva-voce test­ Minimum qualifying marks not prescribed-State Public Service Commission-Whether competent to prescribe additional requirements for selection-High Court Judge present as an expert at the viva-voce-­ Advice of-Whether could run counter to the Statutory Rules. The petitioner had secured 470 marks out of 950 in the written examination conducted by the Orissa Public Service Commission for -"( the post of Probationary Munsifs for the year 1982-83. In the viva-voce test he was given

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Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to

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