Supreme Court of India
Vikas Pratap Singh and Ors. v. State of Chhattisgarh and Ors.
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Service Law: c Recruitment/Selection - Competitive examination - Appointment of successful candidates as per the merit list - Complaints regarding defects/mistakes in questions of main examination - Expert Committee found the defects - Selective re-evaluation of the answer-scripts of all the candidates - Revised merit list drawn - In the revised list name of 26 candidates who were appointed on the basis of first merit list, did not figure - Writ petition by the 26 candidates challenging validity of the revised merit list - Dismissed by High Court - Held: The decision of re-evaluation was
Authorities it was built on
- 1993 S.P. Chengalvaraya Naidu (dead) by L.rs. v. Jagannath (dead) by L.rs. and Ors
- 2005 State of U.P. v. Neeraj Awasthi and Ors.
- 2008 Tridip Kumar Dingal & Ors. v. State of West Bengal & Ors.
- 1990 District Collector and Chairman Vizianagaram (social Welfare Residential School Society) Vizianagaram and Anr. v. M. Tripura Sundari Devi
- 2010 Girjesh Shrivastava and Others v. State of M.P. and Others
- 2001 Buddhi Nath Chaudhary and Ors. v. Abahi Kumar and Ors.
- 2000 Chairman, J and K State Board of Education v. Feyaz Ahmed Malik and Ors.
- 2008 Sahiti and Others v. The Chancellor, Dr. N.T.R. University of Health Sciences and Others,
- 2002 Vinodan T. and Ors. v. University of Calicut and Ors.
- 2007 Union of India and Anr. v. Narendra Singh
Where later benches applied it
- 2021 Abhishek Kumar Singh v. G. Pattanaik & Ors.
- 2018 U.P. Jal Nigam & Ors. v. Ajit Singh Patel & Ors.
- 2025 Pawan Kumar Tiwary and Others v. Jharkhand State Electricity Board (now Jharkhand Urja Vikas Nigam Limited) and Others
Of those, 2 relied on · 1 referred to
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