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Parimal Kumar & Ors. v. The State of Jharkhand & Ors.

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Reported as [2025] 1 S.C.R. 1953
Bench J.K. Maheshwari and Rajesh Bindal JJ.
Decided 30 January 2025

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the revised eligibility criteria introduced therein cannot be applied to the ongoing recruitment process initiated under the Advertisement No. 13, as doing so would amount to altering the rules of the game after the recruitment process has commenced.

Judgment, page 29

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Issue for Consideration Issue arose whether on commencement of recruitment process on the date of advertisement, the private respondents or the appellants possessed the minimum qualification prescribed in the 2022 Recruitment Rules; whether the interim order and the impugned judgment passed by the High Court based on the concession of the Advocate General of the State, would amount to change of rules of the game after commencement of recruitment process; whether in terms of s.23(2) of RTE Act and para 10 of NCTE Guidelines dated 11.02.2011, how far the State Government can change the

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