Supreme Court · 2026 INSC 24 · Decided 6 January 2026
Abhay Kumar Patel & ORS. v. State of Bihar & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2026 INSC 24 · [2026] 2 S.C.R. 62
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 54/2026
- Decided
- 6 January 2026
- Bench
- J.K. MAHESHWARI (2-judge bench)
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 309
Headnote
Whether the Bihar Engineering Service Class-II Recruitment (Amendment) Rules, 2022 can be made applicable to the 2019 Advertisements after the written examination has been conducted and the provisional merit list has been published. Service Law Bihar Engineering Services Class - II Recruitment Rules, 2019 - The dispute in the present case is with respect to the retrospective application of an amendment to the Bihar Engineering Services Class - II Recruitment Rules, 2019, specifically the introduction of r.8(5), whereby
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