Supreme Court of India

Maheshwari Prasad & Ors. v. State of Jharkhand & Ors.

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Reported as [2012] 2 S.C.R. 708
Bench Altamas Kabir Surinder Singh Nijjar J.
Decided 4 April 2012

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that even the advertisement on which reliance has been placed by the Appellants herein, laid stress on a candidate having to possess a licence for driving heavy motor vehicles.

Judgment, page 6

From the headnote

SERVICE LAW: c Recruitment - Police Drivers - Eligibility - Advertisement dated 6. 2. 2004 inviting applications for the posts of Police Drivers in State of Jharkhand - Held: The criteria for eligibility in the advertisement indicates that the candidate had to hold a licence for driving heavy motor vehicles or light motor 0 vehicles along with heavy motor vehicles - It is not as if the advertisement indicated that a candidate possessing a licence for driving only light motor vehicles would be eligible, the same had to be combined with the right to drive heavy motor vehicles - Thus, those

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