Supreme Court of India

Vivek Kaisth & Anr v. The State of Himachal Pradesh & Ors

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Reported as [2023] 16 S.C.R. 613
Bench C.T. Ravikumar and Sudhanshu Dhulia JJ.
Decided 20 November 2023

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What the Court ordered

We hold that it would be contrary to the public interest to direct the induction of the petitioners into the Higher Judicial Service after the lapse of more than six years.

Judgment, page 30

From the headnote

Issue for consideration: The names of the two appellants herein were included later in the fi nal selection list vide notifi cation dated 27.12.2013 issued by the State Government. The High Court has held these two selections, and consequently the appointments to be illegal and these have been quashed. This Court has to examine the validity of the selection and appointment of these two appellants to the post of Civil Judge (Junior Division), and whether they should now be unseated from their jud icial offi ce. Service Law – Recruitment – Advertisement – An advertisement was issued on 01.02.2013

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 mentioned

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