Supreme Court · 1975 INSC 196 · Decided 2 September 1975
A. Panduranga Rao v. State of Andhra Pradesh & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1975 INSC 196 · [1976] 1 S.C.R. 620
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2059/1974
- Decided
- 2 September 1975
- Bench
- A. ALAGIRISWAMI, P.K. GOSWAMI, N.L. UNTWALIA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 233(2)
Headnote
Constitudon of lndi~1-Art. 233(2)-SC'ope of. Under Article 233 (2) of the Constitution a person not already in service of the Union or of. the State shall only be eligible to be appointed a Districtl Judge, if he has been for not less than 7 years an advocate or pleader and is recommended by the of candidates to fill six ,posts of District Judges the High Court recommended six persons as the most suitable candi­ dates from among the applicants. The appellant was one of them. This recom­ mendation having leaked out, the Government requested the High Court to send a list of persons
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