https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173912 University recruitment eligibility must be assessed on the last date for submitting applications where the advertisement specifies no other date. Treating candidates who acquired qualifications later as eligible is arbitrary and discriminatory. Any power to relax prescribed qualifications must be expressly disclosed in the advertisement, subject to stated conditions, and reasons for each relaxation must be recorded in the selection proceedings. Selection minutes and related records must be preserved; their absence may support an adverse inference if the process is challenged. Although the selection was legally defective on the eligibility-date issue, existing appointments remained undisturbed because of the passage of time and surrounding circumstances, while mandatory norms were prescribed for future selections. en-us Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 24 Sep 2015 15:59:54 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173912 University recruitment eligibility must be assessed on the last date for submitting applications where the advertisement specifies no other date. Treating candidates who acquired qualifications later as eligible is arbitrary and discriminatory. Any power to relax prescribed qualifications must be expressly disclosed in the advertisement, subject to stated conditions, and reasons for each relaxation must be recorded in the selection proceedings. Selection minutes and related records must be preserved; their absence may support an adverse inference if the process is challenged. Although the selection was legally defective on the eligibility-date issue, existing appointments remained undisturbed because of the passage of time and surrounding circumstances, while mandatory norms were prescribed for future selections. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173912