ORDER :

'Rules of the game cannot be changed once the game has begun’.

This phrase, which has found its place in many of the judicial pronouncements of the Apex Court and High Courts when the Courts have taken exception to the employer's decisions, changing the criteria for selection of employees, after the commencement of the process of selection, is the trump card for the petitioners.

2. Petitioners cling to the ratio in the judgments of the Hon’ble Apex Court in the matter of K.Manjusree etc. v. State of Andhra Pradesh and another AIR 2008 SC 1470 and in the matter of N.T.Bevin Katti, etc. v. Karnataka Public Service Commission and others AIR 1990 Supreme Court 1233 to justify their stand.

3. Changes in the selection criteria are notified and you have consciously participated in the selection process without any demur or protest. You took a chance, waited for the result, and now cannot turn around to say that a change in criteria midway through the selection process is impermissible, is the response of the University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur/appointing authority (for sh