Supreme Court · 1971 INSC 14 · Decided 15 January 1971
A. Periakaruppan Chettiar v. State of Tamil Nadu &. ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1971 INSC 14 · [1971] 3 S.C.R. 449
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 623/1970
- Decided
- 15 January 1971
- Bench
- J.C. SHAH, K.S. HEGDE, A.N. GROVER (3-judge bench)
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32
Headnote
Admission to Medical Colleges-Allegation of malafides against Selection Committee-Proof of -Interview marks-Government specifies heads of distribution of marks but no marks allotted to each head­ Presumption that marks should be distributed equally-Violation of pre­ sumption by Selection who was an unsuccessful applicant for a seat in one of the medical colleges in the respondent-State challenged the selections made by a writ petition in this Court. This Court came to the conclusion that the selections made were invalid, but did not strike t'iem clown, 1nd instead,
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