Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 15 · Decided 11 January 2021
High Court of Kerala v. Reshma A. & Others ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 15 · [2021] 1 S.C.R. 289
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3974/2020
- Decided
- 11 January 2021
- Bench
- D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, INDIRA BANERJEE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 16, 142
Headnote
Service Law: Selection - Vacancies - High Court held that appointments to the post of Munsiff-Magistrate can be beyond the number of probable number of vacancies advertised in the notification inviting applications - High Court held, on a literal reading of Judicial Service Rules, 1991 (as amended in 2019), that vacancies which arise within a year of the approval of the select list by the Governor should be filled up from amongst candidates on the list even though this exceeds the number of probable vacancies which were notified, unless a fresh
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