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53. In Chandraprakash Madhavrao Dadwa v. Union of India reported in 1998 (8) SCC 154, pursuant to the introduction of certain additional qualifications and job requirements, the appellants therein, who were holding the posts of Date Processing Assistants and Data Processing Supervisors respectively and already confirmed in the said posts, were sought to be reverted to Data Entry Operators and Data Processing Assistants, on account of change of eligibility conditions, including educational qualification. The appellants therein did not satisfy the educational qualifications for the abovesaid posts. Since the rules were introduced subsequently, the same cannot be made applicable to the existing candidates, the Apex Court, at sub-paragraph 10 of paragraph 50, while setting aside the orders of reversion, held that, "the change in the essential qualification made in 1990 or 1998 or the additional functions now required to be performed by the appellants could not retrospectively affect the initial recruitment of appellants as Data Processing Assistants nor their confirmation in 1989. Recruitment qualifications could not be altered or applied with retrospective effect so as to deprive the recruiters of their right to the posts to which they were recruited nor could it affect their confirmations."