Supreme Court of India

Sureshkumar Lalitkumar Patel & Ors. v. State of Gujarat & Ors.

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Reported as [2023] 2 S.C.R. 543
Bench Sanjiv Khanna and M. M. Sundresh JJ.
Decided 20 February 2023

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Service Law – Modification of selection process – ut-off marks reduced after results were published to facilitate the inclusion of candidates constituting horizontal reservation – Impe rmissibility of – Held: An advertisement made pursuant to a notification binds the parties – It has got all the trappings of a statutory pr escription, unless contrary to either a rule or an Act – change, if any, can only be brought by an amendment and nothing else – Such amendment even if permissible, can be tested on the t ouchstone of Art.14 – It cannot be introduced to give an entry t o a special

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