Supreme Court of India
Joginder Pal & Ors. Etc. v. State of Punjab & Ors.
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What the Court ordered
We are of the opinion that once those untainted officers, who were appointed under the same environment, have been allowed to continue, there is no reason to deprive this benefit of such recourse to the PCS (Executive Branch) and E Allied Services.
Judgment, page 36
From the headnote
Service law: Recruitment -:: Appointment made in Punjab Civil Service, Executive Branch and Allied Services Branch as also judicial appointments - Selection process found to be tainted and vitiated - Cancellation of the appointments made - Justification of - Held: Candidates selected with unfair and illegal means cannot have the audacity to say that they should be reinstated in service and allowed to continue till their appeals are decided - In any case, having found that they are tainted candidates and their entry into public service was soiled, decision to terminate their services perfectly
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Where later benches applied it
- 2021 Sachin Kumar & Ors. v. Delhi Subordinate Service Selection Board (dsssb) & Ors.
- 2018 U.P. Jal Nigam & Ors. v. Ajit Singh Patel & Ors.
- 2021 Abhishek Kumar Singh v. G. Pattanaik & Ors.
- 2025 State of West Bengal v. Baishakhi Bhattacharyya (chatterjee) and Others
Of those, 2 relied on · 1 referred to · 1 mentioned
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