Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 145 · Decided 20 February 2023
Sureshkumar Lalitkumar Patel & ORS. v. State of Gujarat & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 145 · [2023] 2 S.C.R. 543
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1355/2023
- Decided
- 20 February 2023
- Bench
- SANJIV KHANNA, M.M. SUNDRESH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 142
Headnote
Service Law - Modification of selection process - Cut-off marks reduced after results were published to facilitate the inclusion of candidates constituting horizontal reservation - Impermissibility of - Held: An advertisement made pursuant to a - It has got all the trappings of a statutory prescription, unless contrary to either a rule or an Act - A change, if any, can only be brought by an amendment and nothing else - Such amendment even if permissible, can be tested on the touchstone of Art.14 - It cannot be
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