https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=275205 A selectee on a panel for Judicial Member of the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal has no vested right to appointment, but the appointing authority must consider the panel promptly and cannot ignore it or withhold appointment arbitrarily when vacancies exist. Unexplained delay in processing recommendations by the Central Government was unjustified, and unsupported assumptions about reservation or another officer's lien could not justify non-appointment. However, on the facts, no direction for appointment was granted to the appellant, who ranked fourth, because the higher-ranked candidates had either not joined or were no longer in the field. en-us Mon, 27 Mar 1995 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 22 Sep 2018 06:12:40 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=275205 A selectee on a panel for Judicial Member of the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal has no vested right to appointment, but the appointing authority must consider the panel promptly and cannot ignore it or withhold appointment arbitrarily when vacancies exist. Unexplained delay in processing recommendations by the Central Government was unjustified, and unsupported assumptions about reservation or another officer's lien could not justify non-appointment. However, on the facts, no direction for appointment was granted to the appellant, who ranked fourth, because the higher-ranked candidates had either not joined or were no longer in the field. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 27 Mar 1995 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=275205