Union Of India (Uoi) And Ors. vs Ishwar Singh Khatri And Ors. on 4 August, 1989
The question whether the candidates whose names are included in
the waiting list are entitled to be appointed against the unfilled posts as
of right is no longer res integra and must be answered in negative in view
of the judgments of this Court in Union of India v. Ishwar Singh Khatri
1992 Supp (3) SCC 84, Gujarat State Dy. Executive Engineers’ Association v.
State of Gujarat and others 1994 Supp (2) SCC 591, State of Bihar v.
Secretariat Assistant Successful Examinees Union 1986 and others (1994) 1
SCC 126, Prem Singh and others v. Haryana SEB and others 1996) 4 SCC 319,
Ashok Kumar and others v. Chairman, Banking Service Recruitment Board and
others (1996) 1 SCC 283, Surinder Singh and others v. State of Punjab and
another (1997) 8 SCC 488, Madan Lal and others v. State of J&K and others
(1995) 3 SCC 486, Kamlesh Kumar Sharma v. Yogesh Kumar Gupta and others
(1998) 3 SCC 45, State of J&K and others v. Sanjeev Kumar and others (2005)
4 SCC 148, State of U.P. and others v. Rajkumar Sharma and others (2006) 3
SCC 330, Ram Avtar Patwari and others v. State of Haryana and others 2007)
10 SCC 94 and Rakhi Ray and others v. High Court of Delhi and others (2010)
2 SCC 637.