Zahoor Ahmad Rather vs Sheikh Imtiyaz Ahmad on 5 December, 2018
"13. This Court in the case of Zahoor Ahmad
Rather and Others v. Sheikh Imtiyaz Ahmad and
Others, (2019) 2 SCC 404 held that judicial
review can neither expand the ambit of the
prescribed qualifications nor decide the
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equivalence of the prescribed qualifications with
any other given qualification. Therefore, the
equivalence of a qualification is not a matter that
can be determined in the exercise of the power of
judicial review. Whether a particular qualification
should or should not be regarded as equivalent is
a matter for the State, as the recruiting
authority, to determine. (emphasis supplied) "