JUDGMENT :

NONGMEIKAPAM KOTISWAR SINGH, J.

Leave granted.

2. The present appeal presents an important question concerning the delicate balance between strict adherence to statutory recruitment norms and the constitutional obligation of courts to ensure fairness where employees, appointed through a duly initiated public selection process and having rendered long years of unblemished service, face the prospect of displacement on account of procedural defects allegedly attributable not to them but to the authorities conducting the recruitment. At its core, the controversy compels this Court to examine whether every infraction of a recruitment procedure necessarily renders an appointment void in law.

3. The present proceedings arise out of the judgment and final order dated 29.07.2025 passed by the Division Bench of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh in LPA No.1259 of 2024 (O&M), whereby the Division Bench of the High Court has affirmed the judgment dated 22.04.2024 rendered by the learned Single Judge in CWP No.23148 of 2017 and consequently, declined to interfere with the administrative and quasi-judicial orders passed by the authorities under the Haryana Cooperative Soc