[9] The essential qualifications for appointment to a post are for
the employer to decide. The employer may prescribe additional or
desirable qualifications, including any grant of preference. It is the
employer who is best suited to decide the requirements a candidate
must possess according to the needs of the employer and the nature
of work. The court cannot lay down the conditions of eligibility,
much less can it delve into the issue with regard to desirable
qualifications being at par with the essential eligibility by an
interpretive re-writing of the advertisement. Questions of
equivalence will also fall outside the domain of judicial review. If
the language of the advertisement and the rules are clear, the Court
cannot sit in judgment over the same. If there is an ambiguity in
the advertisement or it is contrary to any rules or law the matter
has to go back to the appointing authority after appropriate orders,
to proceed in accordance with law. In no case can the Court, in the
garb of judicial review, sit in the chair of the appointing authority
to decide what is best for the employer and interpret the conditions
of the advertisement contrary to the plain language of the same.
To similar effect is exposition made by Hon'ble Supreme Court in State
of Madhya Pradesh Vs. Raghuveer Singh Yadav, (1994) 6 SCC 151,
which reads as under:
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Kumar
17. 124/2021 2547/2021 State Vs 7.7.2021
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