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2022 Supreme(Pat) 332

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
P. B. BAJANTHRI and RAJIV ROY, JJ.
(27.7.2022)
LPA No.664 of 2021; 12 of 2022 in CWJC No.10649, 12134 of 2021
Bihar Public Service Commission,
Patna & Ors. : Appellants
(in both)
Vs.
Utpal Kant & Ors. (in 664)
Dilshad Ahmed & Ors. (in 12): Respondents

Advocates:
For the Appellants : M/s Lalit Kishore, Sr. Adv., Satyabir Bharti, Prachi Pallavi (in 664).
For the State : Mr. Suman Kumar Jha (in 664).
For the Pvt.-Respondents: Mr. Arun Kumar, Alok Kumar.
For the Appellants : M/s Lalit Kishore, Sr. Adv., Satyabir Bharti, Prachi Pallavi (in 12).
For the State : Mr. Suman Kumar Jha (in 12).
For the Respondents: M/s Arun Kumar, Alok Kumar (in 12).

Headnote:

Service Law – Appointment – Marks of preliminary test is not taken into account for final selection and same is just a screening process – Only marks of written examination followed by interview marks are totalled for final selection – Rights of candidate has been curtailed by not announcing result of 5530 candidates by limiting it to 3995 – Alteration of clauses in advertisement may be with ulterior motive – BPSC cannot be allowed to turn around and announce applicability of 16.07.2007 resolution on preliminary test examinees after result was published – Result published by BPSC as such is/was unfair and unsustainable in law – Single Judge was fully justified in directing BPSC to publish revised result of preliminary test of successful candidates without invoking of resolution no 2374 dated 16.07.2007 issued by Department – Appeal dismissed. (Paras 36, 43, 50, 52, 53 and 54)

CWJC No. 10649 of 2021 (Utpal Kant & Others Vs. The B.P.S.C & Others) & CWJC No. 12134 of 2021 (Dilshad Ahmad and Another Vs. the B.P.S.C & Another) – Referred.

L.P.A. No. 2120, 2150 & 2176 of 2016 (Tulika Shekhar & Others Vs. The State of Bihar through Chief Secretary-cum-Chairman, Bihar Vikas Mission & Ors), 2018 (4) PLJR 1012 – Distinguished.

Ramjit Singh Kardam and Others Vs. Sanjeev Kumar and Others, (2020) 20 SCC 209 – Relied.

JUDGMENT

RAJIV ROY, J.:–

The appellant, Bihar Public Service Commission (henceforth for short ‘the BPSC’) Patna, has preferred these two appeals through its Chairman for setting aside the common order and judgment dated 23.08.2021 passed by the learned Single Judge (Hon’ble Mr. Justice Chakradhari Sharan Singh) in C.W.J.C. No. 10649 of 2021 (Utpal Kant & Others Vs. The Bihar Public Service Commisison & Others) and analogous cases by which the writ petitions preferred by the respondents-petitioners were allowed with a direction to ‘the BPSC’ to publish a revised result of the preliminary test of successful candidates (relating to Advertisement No. 01/2020 for 553 posts of Assistant Prosecution Officer) without invoking the resolution of the Personnel and Administrative Reforms Department, Government of Bihar (henceforth for short ‘the Department’) issued vide memo no. 2374 dated 16.07.2007 which was not mentioned in the advertisement so far as the preliminary test is concerned.

2. The matrix of facts leading to the present appeal is/are as follows:—

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