Supreme Court of India

Virender Singh Hooda and Ors. v. State of Haryana and Anr.

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Reported as [2004] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 720

Bench Y.K. Sabharwal and D.M. Dharmadhikari JJ.

Decided 27 October 2004

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What the Court ordered

Before parting with the case, it deserves to be noticed that to a large B extent the State Government itself was responsible for the difficulties because of long gap of number of years between advertisement and appointments to the posts.

Judgment, page 41

From the headnote

Service Law: Civil Services (Executive Branch) and Allied Services and Other Services, Common/combined Examination Act, 2002-Competitive Examination Appointment of candidates in excess to the posts advertised-Directed by writs of the Court in view of Government Circulars-Retrospective legislation repealing the Circulars-Constitutional validity of-Held: Retrospective legislation can change the basis of judicial legislation unless it is violative of Chapter III and other Constitutional provisions-But it cannot by a bare declaration directly overule, reverse or override a judicial decision

Authorities it was built on

1981 A.V. Nachane & Another v. Union of India & Another cited by 19
1994 Union of India and Ors. v. Tushar Ranjan Mohanty cited by 9

Where later benches applied it

2021 Madras Bar Association v. Union of India and Anr. relied on
2021 High Court of Kerala v. Reshma A. & Others Etc. referred to
2019 B K Pavitra and Ors. v. The Union of India and Ors referred to
2014 State of Tamil Nadu v. State of Kerala & Anr. referred to
2014 Amarendra Kumar Mohapatra & Ors. v. State of Orissa & Ors. referred to

Of those, 1 relied on · 4 referred to

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