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2026 Supreme(SC) 257

B. V. NAGARATHNA, UJJAL BHUYAN
S G Jamaludheen Etc. – Appellant
Versus
State Of Karnataka – Respondent


Advocates appeared:
For the Appellant(s) : Mr. Vinay Navare, Sr. Adv. Ms. Rekha Palli, Adv. Mr. Gautam Narayan, Sr. Adv. Ms Asmita Singh, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Bharati, Adv. Mr. Lakshmisha B. S., Adv. Ms. Vagisha Kochar, AOR Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, AOR Mr. S. Nandakumar, Sr. Adv. Ms. Deepika Nandakumar, Adv. Ms. Kanimozhi J., Adv. Mr. Naresh Kumar, AOR Mr. Gautam Talukdar, AOR Ms. Anitha Shenoy, Sr. Adv. Ms. K. V. Bharathi Upadhyaya, AOR Ms. Sadhana Madhavan, Adv. Ms. Kavana Rao, Adv. Ms. Pritama, Adv. Mr. Sufyan Hasan, Adv. Ms. Hema Malik, Adv. Ms. Shaivani, Adv. Dr. Sunita, Adv. Mr. Bipin Vinayak Chandan, Adv. Mr. Vishak Hegde, Adv. Dr. Aditya Sondhi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Anubhav Kumar, Adv. Mr. Aman Choudhary, Adv. Mr. Sorokhaibam Shanti Jyoti Singh, Adv. Mrs. Jayasheela Y J, Adv. Mr. Ankolekar Gurudatta, AOR Mr. Kumar Parimal, Adv. Mr. Smarhar Singh, AOR Ms. Shweta Kumari, Adv. Mr. Rajesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Mohd Asim, Adv. Mr. Pankaj Prakash, Adv. Mr. Manoj Kumar, Adv. Mr. Anand Sanjay M Nuli, Sr. Adv. M/S. Nuli & Nuli, AOR Mr. Suraj Kaushik, Adv. Mr. Dharam Singh, Adv. Mr. Anup Jain, AOR Mr. Abdul Azeem Kalebudde, AOR Mr. Naveen R. Nath, Sr. Adv. Ms. Hetu Arora Sethi, AOR Mr. Rahul Jain, Adv. Ms. Lalit Mohini Bhat, Adv. Mr. Aditya Nath, adv. Mr. Vishak Hegde, Adv. Mr. Siddarth Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Anirudh Bhat, Adv. Ms. Kanak Wathwal, Adv. Mr. Archit Upadhayay, AOR Mr. Purushottam Sharma Tripathi, AOR
For the Respondent(s): Mr. Ankolekar Gurudatta, AOR Mr. R. V. Kameshwaran, AOR Mr. H. Chandra Sekhar, AOR Mr. Harish Pandey, AOR Mr. Aman Panwar, A.A.G. Mr. Sanchit Garga, AOR Mr. Kunal Rana, Adv. Mr. Shashwat Jaiswal, Adv. Mr. Abhinav Kumar, Adv. Mr. Manav Kaushik, Adv. Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, AOR Mr. Shekhar G Devasa, Sr. Adv. M/S. Devasa & Co., AOR Mr. Manish Tiwari, Adv. Mrs. Thashmitha Muthanna, Adv. Mr. Rakesh Kini, Adv. Mr. Shashi Bhushan Nagar, Adv. Mr. H.Subramhanya Jois, Sr. Adv. Ms. Pooja, Adv. Mr. Ravi Shanker Jha, Adv. Mr. Lakshmi Raman Singh, AOR Mrs. Divya Sharma, Adv. Mr. Shoeb Alam, Sr. Adv. Mr. R.Veeraraghavan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Purushottam Sharma Tripathi, AOR Mr. Ravi Chandra Prakash, Adv. Ms. Vani Vyas, Adv. Ms. Thanuja.v, Adv. Mr. Prakhar Singh, Adv. Mr. Khalid, Adv. Mr. Manish Kumar Gupta, AOR Ms. Vagisha Kochar, AOR Mr. Chandrashekhar A. Chakalabbi, Adv. M/s Dharmaprabhas Law Associates, AOR Mr. Sughosh Subramanyam, Adv. Ms. Sanskruti Samal, Adv. Mr. Chaitanya, AOR Mr. Kartik Pant, Adv. Mr. Amit Pai, AOR Ms. Pankhuri Bhardwaj, Adv. Mr. Tathagata Dutta, Adv. Mr. Gopi Kishan, Adv. Mr. Sudhanshu Prakash, AOR

Table of Content
1. validity of recruitment process challenged. (Para 4 , 5 , 6 , 7)
2. parties proposing amicable resolution to disputes. (Para 8 , 10 , 11 , 12)
3. court observations highlight long drawn litigation. (Para 18 , 19 , 20)
4. final directions for future appointments. (Para 22 , 23 , 24 , 26)

JUDGMENT

NAGARATHNA, J.

Permission to file Special Leave Petitions is granted in S.L.P. (C) CC Nos.2821-2859/2017 and 2880-2918/2017.

2. Delay condoned in S.L.P. (C) CC Nos.2570-2571/2017.

3. Leave granted in the Special Leave Petitions.

4. Being aggrieved by the impugned order dated 23.09.2014 passed the Division Bench of the Karnataka High Court in Writ Petition Nos. 6842-6880/2010 and connected writ petitions, the appellants are before this Court.

5. A Notification was published on 18.08.2006 by the Karnataka Public Service Commission (for short, “the KPSC”) inviting applications for the post of Motor Vehicle Inspectors. A total of 145 posts were advertised. The qualifications for the post were also spelled out in the said Notification. However, there were several Original Applications filed before the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal (for short, “the Tribunal”) challenging the Notifica

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