Gender cannot be a ground to deny promotion where Recruitment Rules make no distinction: Tripura HC
The Tripura High Court quashed the Inspector General of Prisons’ communication and directed reconsideration within three months.
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Procedural irregularity in final appointment process cannot invalidate fair recruitment: SC directs Haryana Cooperative Society to reconsider employees’ appointments
The present appeal presents an important question concerning the delicate balance between strict adherence to statutory recruitment norms and the constitutional obligation of courts to ensure fairness where employees, appointed through a duly initiated public selection process and having rendered long years of unblemished service, face the prospect of displacement on account of procedural defects allegedly attributable not to them but to the authorities conducting the recruitment.
Uniform Rules, Clear Command: Rajya Sabha clears Central Armed Police Forces (General Administration) Bill, 2026
Central Armed Police Forces (General Administration) Bill, 2026, passed by the Rajya Sabha, aims to unify recruitment and service rules while strengthening command, coordination, and governance across CAPFs.
Supreme Court directs High Courts to frame or amend rules for recruitment and service conditions for Court Managers; Issues directions for their regularisation
“The Court Managers having served for years, after rendering their services for such a long period, if they are not made permanent and are to be thrown away at this stage, it would cause a great hardship to them”
Rajasthan High Court upholds validity of appointments from Non-State Civil Services category to Indian Administrative Service
“Tendency to stop the recruitment process of non-SCS category candidates points out towards the greed of the State Civil Service category candidates to grab all the posts meant for State Civil Service and non-SCS category candidates.”
Eligibility criteria for Government jobs cannot be changed midway unless allowed by existing Rules: Supreme Court
“Recruiting bodies subject to the extant rules may devise an appropriate procedure for bringing the recruitment process to its logical end, provided the procedure is transparent non-discriminatory, non-arbitrary, and has a rational nexus with the object sought to be achieved”
‘Office Memorandum cannot supersede Recruitment Rules’; Delhi HC upholds CAT’s ruling that the Additional CIT (NFSG) post is a promotional position
‘It was undisputed that the respondents would be entitled to the benefit of Note 1 below Rule 7(4) of Schedule II to the Indian Revenue Service Rules, 2015.’
Delhi HC suggests Ministry of Higher Education to provide uniform eligibility conditions for recruitment to various teaching posts
“The different eligibility conditions prescribed by different institutions under the same Board are not comprehensible as it keeps out large number of eligible candidates.”
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Supreme Court: In the case where a candidate appearing for examination for recruitment to the post of Constables in Railway Protection Force
[Public Employments] Can appointments be claimed as a matter of absolute right? Madras HC unfolds
Madras High Court: S.M. Subramaniam, J., observed that, equal opportunities in public employment is the Constitutional mandate. Several petitions were instituted for
CAT | UPSC can’t be steamrolled into recognizing administrative or executive orders with respect to recruitment; Recruitment Rules upheld
Central Administrative Tribunal, Delhi: A Division Bench of Justice L. Narasimha Reddy, Chairman, and Mohd. Jamshed, Member (A), dismissed the application for
All HC | Medical Board report in a recruitment process not to be interfered with, unless arbitrary, capricious or not in accord with relevant recruitment rules
Allahabad High Court: A Division Bench of Biswanath Somadder and Dr Y. K. Srivastava, JJ. dismissed the present appeal since this was not