Supreme Court of India

The State of Rajasthan v. Nemi Chand Mahela and Others

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Reported as [2019] 18 S.C.R. 995
Bench L. Nageswara Rao and Sanjiv Khanna JJ.
Decided 30 April 2019

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the candidates who had not filed writ petitions on or before November 17, 1999 would not be entitled to appointment upon recalculation of marks by exclusion of bonus marks from the marks of the selected candidates.

Judgment, page 12

From the headnote

Precedents – Law of precedents – “Scarecrow” of a litigation – Conflicting decisions that fail to respect and follow the pr ecedent set by Supreme Court cause uncertainty and chaos – On facts, conflicting opinions in different decisions of High Court of Rajasthan contrary to the true and correct interpretation of t he principle of prospective overruling given in decisions of the Sup reme Court in Kailash Chand Sharma v. State of Rajasthan and there after in Manmohan Sharma v. State of Rajasthan and Others case has caused this annoying and festering litigation to prolong since 1999, that in

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to

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