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Vikash Kumar v. Union Public Service Commission & Ors.

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Reported as [2021] 12 S.C.R. 311
Bench Dr. Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, Indira Banerjee and Sanjiv Khanna JJ.
Decided 11 February 2021

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered view that undue suspicion about the disabled engaging in wrongdoing is unwarranted.

Judgment, page 47

From the headnote

Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 – ss. 2(r), 2(s), 2(y), 3 and 56 – Civil Services Examination Rules, 2018 – acility of a scribe in the Civil Services Examination – Entitleme nt to – The appellant has a disability in the form of dysgraphia, commonly known as a Writer’s Cramp – On 07.02.2018, UPSC issued a notifi cation for the CSE 2018 – The CSE Rules 2018 issued by DoPT providi ng for the manner and conduct of the examination – The general instructions provided that all candidates must write their papers in their own hand and will not be allowed the help of a scribe – Exceptions

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Where later benches applied it

Of those, 6 relied on · 6 referred to · 1 mentioned

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