Pawan Kumar Agrawal vs State of Chhattisgarh

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2025 Supreme(SC) 690

B. R. GAVAI, AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH
Pawan Kumar Agrawal – Appellant
Versus
State of Chhattisgarh – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
For the Petitioner(s): Mr. P.S. Patwalia,Sr.Adv. Mr. Anjani Kumar Mishra, AOR Mrs. Hardeep Kaur Mishra, Adv. Mr. Praveen Mishra, Adv. Mr. Sanat Pandey, Adv.
For the Respondent(s): Mr. B.S Rajesh Agrajit,, D.A.G. Ms. Ankita Sharma, AOR Mr. Arjun D Singh, Adv. Dr. Harsh Pathak,Adv. Ms. Shaveta Mahajan, AOR Mr. Apoorv Kurup, Sr. Adv. Ms. Nidhi Mittal, AOR Mr. Gurjas Singh Narula, Adv. Ms. Jaya Choudhary, Adv.

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JUDGMENT :

B.R. GAVAI, J.

1. Delay condoned.

2. Leave granted.

3. The present appeal challenges the judgment and final order dated 30th July 2019, passed by the Division Bench of the High Court of Chhattisgarh at Bilaspur (hereinafter referred to as, “High Court”) in Writ Appeal No. 341 of 2019, whereby the High Court dismissed the appeal filed by the appellants thereby affirming the order dated 13th May 2019 rendered by the learned Single Judge of the High Court in Writ Petition (S) No.3620 of 2019.

4. The facts, in brief, giving rise to the present appeal are as under:

4.1 On 2nd April 2003, the Chhattisgarh State Public Service Commission issued Advertisement No.01/2003/Exam inviting applications for recruitment to the post of Civil Judge, Class-II.

4.2 The appellants submitted their applications, participated in the examination as well as the interview. Thereafter, while preparing the final select list, the appellants who secured 127 and 125 marks respectively, were placed i

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