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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
T.VINOD KUMAR
S. Saravanan – Appellant
Versus
Secretary, Guru Nanak College – Respondent
| Table of Content |
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| 1. petitioner's eligibility and application status (Para 1 , 2) |
| 2. arguments against selection process validity (Para 4 , 5 , 6) |
| 3. court's analysis of selection process legality (Para 9 , 10 , 13 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19) |
| 4. legal precedents on participation in selection process (Para 11 , 12 , 14 , 15) |
| 5. conclusion: writ petition dismissed (Para 20) |
ORDER :
T. Vinod Kumar, J.
Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner, the learned counsel for the 1st respondent, the learned Additional Government Pleader for respondents 2, 3 and 5 and the learned counsels for respondents 4 and 6 and perused the records.
2. Briefly put, the case of the petitioner, is that the 1st respondent issued an advertisement on 03.10.2016 to fill up vacancies in the post of Assistant Professor in the various faculties, which inter alia included the post of Assistant Professor in Economics; that in all three posts of Assistant Professor in Economics were to be filled with candidates under General Turn-1, Most Backward Class-1 and Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe-1; that the petitioner being a post graduate i.e., M.A. in Economics, having qualified in the year 2003 and having obtained a Ph.D. in the year
A candidate participating in a selection process cannot challenge it based on eligibility criteria if he does not succeed in the outcome.
Judicial review applies when selection processes lack transparency; rejection must be justified, especially when only one candidate is eligible. Arbitrary outcomes violate equal opportunity principle....
It is well settled that the principle of estoppel prevents a candidate from challenging the selection process after having failed in it as iterated by this Court in a plethora of judgments
Eligibility criteria for public employment must be strictly adhered to; subsequent production of required documents does not rectify initial ineligibility.
The main legal point established in the judgment is that the selection process must adhere to the terms of the advertisement and the prescribed rules, and any deviation from these norms is impermissi....
Participating without objection in the selection process bars a candidate from later contesting its fairness; procedural adherence in evaluation is crucial for validity.
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