Supreme Court of India

Commissioner of Police and Anr. v. Umesh Kumar

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Reported as [2020] 11 S.C.R. 583
Bench Dr. Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud and Indira Banerjee JJ.
Decided 7 October 2020

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What the Court ordered

For the above reasons, we are of the view that the judgements delivered by the Delhi High Court on 6 December 2018 in Writ Petition (C) No. 10143 of 2017 and on 19 December 2018 in Writ Petition (C) No. 13052 of 2018 do not comport with law.

Judgment, page 14

From the headnote

Service Law – Non-selection in the revised result – In 2013, a notice was published in the newspapers for filling up v acancies for the post of ‘Constable (Executive) – Male’ in Delhi Police – The respondents were declared to be selected under OBC category – However, it was found that an error had crept in due to the f ailure to allocate a bonus mark to every candidate whose heigh t was in excess of 178 cm – In the revised result dated 17.07.201 5, certain candidates from the original list were ousted while new candid ates came in – Respondents were declared selected in revise d result as

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