Supreme Court of India

The Secretary, Kerala Public Service Commission v. Sheeja P.r and Another

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Reported as [2013] 1 S.C.R. 182
Bench K.S. Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra JJ.
Decided 8 January 2013

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the situation would have been different, had the NJD vacancies were reported before the main list got exhausted i.e. on 28.9.2010.

Judgment, page 8

From the headnote

KERALA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION RULES OF PROCEDURE: r. 13 - Rank list - Life of - 'Supplementary list' of reserved category candidates prepared with main list - Expiry of - Non-Joining Duty (NJD) vacancy reported after the rank 0 list had been exhausted - Claim of reserve category candidate next below the candidate in the supplementary list who did not join - Held: Once the main list becomes empty or drains out on the advice of all the candidates, it loses its life; consequently supplementary list also automatically vanishes - The Commission could advise candidates only on receiving

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to

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