Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 381 · Decided 6 May 2024
Abhimeet Sinha & ORS. v. High Court of Judicature at Patna & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 381 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 530
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 251/2016
- Decided
- 6 May 2024
- Bench
- HRISHIKESH ROY, PRASHANT KUMAR MISHRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 16, 234
Headnote
Issue arose as regards the constitutionality of the Rules-Bihar Superior Judicial Service Rules, 1951 and Gujarat State Judicial Service Rules, 2005 stipulating minimum qualifying marks in the viva voce test as a part of the selection criteria District Judiciary in the States of Bihar and Gujarat respectively; whether the prescription of minimum marks for viva voce, in contravention of the law laid down by this Court in All India Judges (2002) which accepted certain recommendations of the Shetty Commission; whether the prescription of
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