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8. Counsel further relied upon the judgment passed by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the matter of Hemani Malhotra Vs. High Court of Delhi reported in (2008) 7 SCC 11 where in para Nos.14, 15 & 16 it has been held as under;

"14. It is an admitted position that at the beginning of the selection process, no minimum cut-off marks for viva-voce were prescribed for Delhi Higher Judicial Service Examination, 2006. The question, therefore, which arises for consideration of the Court is whether introduction of the requirement of minimum marks for interview, after the entire selection process was completed would amount to changing the rules of the game after the game was played. This Court notices that in K.Manjusree Vs.State of A.P., the question posed for consideration of this Court in the instant petitions was considered and answered in the following terms:(SCC pp.526- 27, para 33) "33. The resolution dated 30.11.2004 merely adopted the procedure prescribed earlier. The previous procedure was not to have any minimum marks for interview. Therefore, extending the minimum marks prescribed for written examination, to interviews, in the selection process is impermissible. We may clarify that prescription of minimum marks for any interview is not illegal. We have no doubt that the authority making rules regulating the (7 of 10) [CW-3256/2020] selection, can prescribe by rules, the minimum marks both for written examination and interviews, or prescribe minimum marks for written examination but not for interview, or may not prescribe any minimum marks for either written examination or interview. Where the rules do not prescribe any procedure, the Selection Committee may also prescribe the minimum marks, as stated above. But if the Selection Committee want to prescribe minimum marks for interview, it should do so before the commencement of selection process. If the selection committee prescribed minimum marks only for the written examination, before the commencement of selection process, it cannot either during the selection process or after the selection process, add an additional requirement that the candidates should also secure minimum marks in the interview. What we have found to be illegal, is changing the criteria after completion of the selection process, when the entire selection proceeded on the basis that there will be no minimum marks for the interview."

16. The contention raised by the learned Counsel for the respondent that the decision rendered in K.Manjusree did not notice the decisions in Ashok Kumar Yadav v. State of Haryana: as well as in K.H. Siraj v. High Court of Kerala, and, therefore, should be regarded either as decision per incuriam or should be referred to a larger Bench for reconsideration, cannot be accepted. What is laid down in the decisions relied upon by the learned Counsel for the respondent is that it is always open to the authority making the rules regulating the selection to prescribe the minimum marks both for written examination and interview. The question whether introduction of the requirement of minimum marks for interview after the entire selection process was completed was valid or nor, never fell for consideration of this Court in the decisions referred to by the learned Counsel for the respondent. While deciding the case of K.Manjusree the Court noticed the decisions in: (1) P.K. Ramachandra Iyer v. Union of India; (2) Umesh Chandra Shukla v. Union of India; and (3) Durgacharan Misra v. State of Orissa, and has thereafter laid down the proposition of law which is quoted above. On the facts and in the circumstances of the case this Court is of the opinion that the decision rendered by this Court in K.Manjusree can neither be regarded as Judgment per incuriam nor good case is made out by the respondent for referring the matter to the larger Bench for reconsidering the said decision."