Supreme Court of India

Mohd. Rashid v. The Director, Local Bodies, New Secretariat & Ors.

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Reported as [2020] 1 S.C.R. 76
Bench L. Nageshwara Rao and Hemant Gupta JJ.
Decided 15 January 2020

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Service Law: Selection/Recruitment – Advertisement for recruitment on the posts in question – Challenged before Administrative Tribunal on the ground that alternative process of direct recruitm ent could not have been resorted to without resorting to process of promotion – Application dismissed by the Tribunal – High Court, in writ petit ion, allowed the case of the writ petitioners – Appeal to Suprem e Court by the candidates of direct recruitment – Held: As per R ecruitment Rules, direct recruitment was to be resorted to only if t he posts could not be filled by promotion/deputation quota –

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