Supreme Court of India

Rakhi Ray & Ors. v. The High Court of Delhi & Or$.

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Reported as [2010] 2 S.C.R. 239

Bench K.G. Balakrishnan CJI, Deepak Verma and Dr. B.S. Chauhan JJ.

Decided 1 February 2010

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From the headnote

Delhi Higher Judicial Services Rules, 1970 - Appointment of District Judges - Filling up vacancies over and above the number of vacancies advertised - Permissibility of - Held: Not permissible - It amounts to filling up of future vacancies - It is violative of Articles 14 and 16(1 ), thus, a nullity - In case vacancies notified stand filled up, process of selection comes to an end - Waiting list cannot be used as a reservoir, to fill up the vacancy which comes into existence after the issuance of notificationladve'rl:isement - Only in a exceptional circumstance, such rule can be deviated,

Authorities it was built on

2008 Hemani Malhotra v. High Court of Delhi cited by 23
2003 Syed T.A. Naqshbandi and Ors. v. State of Jammu and Kashmir and Ors. cited by 9

Where later benches applied it

2019 Nand Kumar Manjhi & Anr. Etc. v. The State of Bihar & Ors. Etc. relied on
2016 Kulwinder Pal Singh and Anr. v. State of Punjab and Ors. relied on
2014 Phool Chandra & Anr. v. State of U.P. relied on
2024 Tej Prakash Pathak & Ors. v. Rajasthan High Court & Ors. referred to
2024 Abhimeet Sinha & Ors. v. High Court of Judicature at Patna & Ors. referred to
2023 Vivek Kaisth & Anr v. The State of Himachal Pradesh & Ors referred to
2021 High Court of Kerala v. Reshma A. & Others Etc. referred to
2016 Srikant Roy & Ors. v. State of Jharkhand & Ors. referred to
2013 Sasidhar Reddy Sura v. The State of Andhra Pradesh & Ors. referred to
2012 Smt. K. Lakshmi v. State of Kerala & Ors. referred to

Of those, 3 relied on · 7 referred to

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