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Directorate Of Film Festivals & Ors vs Gaurav Ashwin Jain & Ors on 11 April, 2007
29. Explaining further this very concept of equality
under Article-14 of the Constitution of India, the Apex Court in the
case of Gaurav Ashwin Jain (supra) had also laid down a guideline for
the High Court exercising the power of Article 226 in the following
terms:-
Director General, Telecommunication & ... vs T.N. Peethambaram on 19 September, 1986
39. As noted above, for all the four examinations, the
same government resolution dated 21.12.1990 was to be taken into
consideration and if on account of a wrong interpretation by the
Commission, the recommendations were made by taking an aggregate
of the two subjects of the written examination in respect of two of
them which was/is contrary to the provisions specified in the
government resolution dated 21.12.1990, this Court cannot issue a
direction to the Commission to commit same error for recommending
the names of the candidates of the advertisement no. 1906 dated
29.11.2006 including the petitioners of these nine writ petitioners for
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the post of Junior Engineer on the basis of aggregate marks secured
by them in the written examination of both the subjects which in
effect would amount to perpetuating illegality. The government
resolution dated 21.12.1990 while laying down the norms and
methodology of the minimum cut-off marks in written examination
talks only of the ^^izfr;ksfxrk ijh{kk**" i.e. competitive xamination" and
does not specify a different standard for each subject and, therefore,
attaining the prescribed minimum passing standard in the written
examination in both the subjects separately has to be applied as was
also clearly held and explained by the Apex Court in the case of T.N.
Peethambaram (supra) laying down that "minimum must mean
minimum in each as much as minimum in aggregate".
Sanchit Bansal & Anr vs Joint Admission Board & Ors on 11 October, 2011
26. Even recently in the case of Sanchit Bansal & Anr. Vs.
Joint Admission Board & Ors. reported in 2012(1)SCC 157 while approving
the separate minimum cut-off marks for the subject of Physics,
Chemistry and Mathematics, it had been held as follows:-
State Of Kerala & Ors vs K. Prasad & Anr on 9 July, 2007
30. Reference in this connection may also be usefully
made to the judgment of Apex Court in the case of State of Kerala &
Ors. Vs. K. Prasad & Anr. reported in (2007)7 SCC 140 relevant portion
whereof reads as follows:-
Secretary, Jaipur Development ... vs Daulat Mal Jain on 20 September, 1996
(emphasis in original)
This position in law is well settled by a catena of decisions of this
Court. (See Secy., Jaipur Development Authority v. Daulat Mal Jain
[(1997)1 SCC 35] and Ekta Shakti Foundation v. Govt. of NCT of
Delhi.) [(2006)10 SCC 337] It would, thus, suffice to say that an order
made in favour of a person in violation of the prescribed procedure
cannot form a legal premise for any other person to claim parity with
the said illegal or irregular order. A judicial forum cannot be used to
perpetuate the illegalities."
Shankarsan Dash vs Union Of India on 30 April, 1991
11. It is here again that this Court would find
considerable merit in the objection of the Government. The
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Government on receipt of the result and the recommendation sent by
the Commission on 2.4.2012 had found that a large number of
candidates had performed miserably and in fact had secured marks in
minus in their main subject of Engineering and yet were
recommended. The Government, being the appointing authority, had,
therefore, a right to question such recommendation of the
Commission and in fact, if the Government could have rejected the
entire recommendation of the Commission as a whole and could have
asked for a fresh selection to be undergone even that was very much
permissible. Law in this regard is well settled that the
recommendation of the Commission is not binding on the appointing
authority and for a valid reason, the appointing authority can refuse to
accept such recommendation made by the Commission. Reference in
this connection made be usefully made to the judgment of the Apex
Court in the case of Shankaran Dash Vs. Union of India reported in
1991(3)SCC 47.
P. Mahendran vs State Of Karnataka on 5 December, 1989
33. This Court is also not impressed with the
submissions of the learned counsel for the petitioners that the ratio of
the case of P. Mahendran & Ors. Vs. State of Karnataka & Ors. reported in
AIR 1990 SC 405 in any way would be applicable to the facts of the
present case. In the present case, as noted above, there is no rule
prescribing the mode of selection on the post of Junior Engineer based
on an aggregate in the written examination, therefore, if the
Commission has uniformly adopted the principle of fixing the
minimum qualifying marks in the written examination in the subjects
of General Knowledge and Engineering, that cannot be said to be
amendment in the norms of selection procedure or the rules relating to
selection and recommendation.
Upendra Narayan Pandit And Ors. vs The State Of Bihar And Ors. on 16 May, 2002
34. The long and short of these cases, therefore, is that
once the Government in its letter dated 23.5.2012 had pointed out the
obvious discrepancy in the earlier recommendation of the
Commission dated 2.4.2012, the Commission had examined the same
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and had corrected its earlier recommendation by strictly observing the
spirit of the Government resolution dated 22.12.1990 while sending
its revised recommendation on 1.6.2012. The reliance placed by the
learned counsel for the petitioners on the Division Bench Judgment of
this Court in the case of Upendra Narayan Pandit & Ors. Vs. The State of
Bihar & Ors. reported in 2002(3)PLJR 50 wherein the effect of the
government resolution dated 22.12.1990 has been considered is
wholly misplaced. In fact, in that case there was a statutory rules
prescribing the mode of manner of appointment on the post of Drug
Inspector in which there was no specific provision made for the
candidates of backward category because those rules were framed in
the year 1989 at a point of time when the reservation for the backward
category had not come into force. However, in course of time, when
such reservation for backward category was given, the selection on
the basis of aforesaid government resolution dated 22.12.1990 fixing
the minimum cut-off mark for the backward category was approved
while holding that the said resolution was only filling up the gap and
supersede the statutory Drug Inspector Recruitment Rules, 1989.