Supreme Court of India

Rajasthan Public Service Commission v. Kaila Kumar Paliwal and Anr.

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Reported as [2007] 5 S.C.R. 1131
Bench S.B. Sinha J.
Decided 2 May 2007

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What the Court ordered

Held as under : When selection is made by the Commission aided and advised D by experts having technical experience and high academic qualifications in the specialist field, probing teaching/research experience in technical subjects, the Courts should be slow to interfere with the opinion expressed by experts unless there are allegations of mala tides against them.

Judgment, page 9

From the headnote

Service Law-Promotion-To the Post of Headmaster, Secondary Schools-Entitlement of Teacher Grade Ill, initially appointed as Laboratory Assistant-Held: Such teachers not entitled to promotion to the post of Headmaster-In order to be considered for promotion to a higher post, person must possess essential qualificativn-Such qualification cannot be relaxed even by the Selection Committee in absence of express power for the same-Determination of criteria for qualification would depend on the rules operating in thefield-Rajasthan Educational Service Rules, 1970-Rajasthan Education (Subordinate

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to

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