Union Of India vs Anand Kumar Pandey on 18 July, 1994
29. Furthermore, this Court is of the considered view that the reliance
placed by learned counsel for the respondents on the judgments in Hanuman
Prasad and Others v. Union of India and Another, (1996) 10 SCC 742; Union
of India and Others v. Anand Kumar Pandey and Others, (1994) 6 SCC 663;
and Regional Manager, Central Bank of India v. Madhulika Guruprasad
Dahir and Others, AIR 2008 SC 3266, is wholly misplaced. In all these cases,
the candidates had either acted fraudulently, adopted unfair means, or secured
their appointments through misrepresentation; circumstances that are entirely
absent in the present matter.