Supreme Court of India

The State of Bihar & Ors. v. Madhu Kant Ranjan & Anr.

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Reported as [2021] 9 S.C.R. 506
Bench M. R. Shah and B. V. Nagarathna JJ.
Decided 16 December 2021

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In view of the above and for the reasons stated above, t he present appeal succeeds, the impugned judgment and order pass ed by the Division Bench of the High Court is hereby quashed and set as ide and judgment and order passed by the learned Single Judge dismissing the writ petition is restored.

Judgment, page 9

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Service law: Appointment – candidate/applicant ha s to comply with all the conditions/eligibility criteria as per the advertisement before the cut-off date mentioned the rein unless extended by the recruiting authority – Also, only those documents, which are submitted alongwith the application form, which are required to be submitted as per the advertisement h ave to be considered – Therefore, when respondent No.1-origin al writ petitioner did not produce the photocopy of the NCC ‘ ’ certi ficate alongwith the original application as per the advertisement and the same was submitted after a

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