https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=168376 A service rule requiring a candidate already allocated and appointed to a service to resign before reappearing for the civil services examination was treated as a valid proviso, not an ultra vires rewrite of the eligibility scheme. The Supreme Court accepted that the restriction supported training discipline, effective administration, and the object of selecting committed probationers, and therefore was neither arbitrary nor unreasonable. It also held that the rule applied through an intelligible classification between distinct cadres and did not create hostile discrimination under Articles 14, 16 or 335, including in relation to Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe candidates. en-us Fri, 13 Sep 1991 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 16:10:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=168376 A service rule requiring a candidate already allocated and appointed to a service to resign before reappearing for the civil services examination was treated as a valid proviso, not an ultra vires rewrite of the eligibility scheme. The Supreme Court accepted that the restriction supported training discipline, effective administration, and the object of selecting committed probationers, and therefore was neither arbitrary nor unreasonable. It also held that the rule applied through an intelligible classification between distinct cadres and did not create hostile discrimination under Articles 14, 16 or 335, including in relation to Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe candidates. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 13 Sep 1991 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=168376