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Abhimeet Sinha & Ors. v. High Court of Judicature at Patna & Ors.

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Reported as [2024] 6 S.C.R. 530
Bench Hrishikesh Roy and Prashant Kumar Mishra JJ.
Decided 6 May 2024

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What the Court ordered

For the reasons recorded in the report of the Commission, the Commission was of the view that the post of a District and Sessions Judge, being an important post, which not only requires integrity and intelligence but also requires maturity, the Commission was of the view that a person not having completed 35 years of age should not be appointed to the said post.

Judgment, page 33

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration Issue arose as regards the constitutionality of the Rules-Bihar Superior Judicial Service Rules, 1951 and Gujarat State Judicial Service Rules, 2005 stipulating minimum qualifying marks in the viva voce test as a part of the selection criteria for appointment to the District Judiciary in the States of Bihar and Gujarat respectively; whether the prescription of minimum marks for viva voce, in contravention of the law laid down by this Court in All India Judges (2002) which accepted certain recommendations of the Shetty Commission; whether the prescription of minimum

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