Supreme Court of India

Baidyanath Yadav v. Aditya Narayan Roy & Ors.

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Reported as [2019] 15 S.C.R. 427
Bench Mohan M. Shantanagoudar and Ajay Rastogi JJ.
Decided 19 November 2019

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that th ere is no hint of arbitrariness, mala fide or bias in the recommenda tion of two other officers, including the Appellant, by the Department of Agriculture in 2014.

Judgment, page 16

From the headnote

Indian Administrative Service (Recruitment) Rules, 1954 – r.8 – Indian Administrative Service (Appointment by sel ection) Regulations, 1997 – IAS (Appointment by Promotion) Regula tions, 1955 – Judicial review of the process governing the selection of non-SCS officers to the IAS – Scope of – The Selection Committee of the Department of Agriculture forwarded three na mes to the State Screening Committee which placed respondent N o.1’s name at Serial No.3 for selection of non-SCS officers to the IAS – Before the State Screening Committee, in the list of 17 recomm endations, the appellant was

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 referred to

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