https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=284030 Public service promotion must comply strictly with recruitment rules, including substantive appointment and prescribed qualifying service, and an ad hoc appointment made outside the rules cannot be regularised so as to create eligibility. The text further explains that relaxation power cannot be used to bypass essential eligibility conditions or to secure a particular individual's advancement, especially where the Commission's consultation is required. It also states that altering a post and invoking reservation to facilitate promotion, when driven by private interest rather than public interest, amounts to malice in law and offends equality requirements in public employment. en-us Thu, 27 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 19 Sep 2025 10:27:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=284030 Public service promotion must comply strictly with recruitment rules, including substantive appointment and prescribed qualifying service, and an ad hoc appointment made outside the rules cannot be regularised so as to create eligibility. The text further explains that relaxation power cannot be used to bypass essential eligibility conditions or to secure a particular individual's advancement, especially where the Commission's consultation is required. It also states that altering a post and invoking reservation to facilitate promotion, when driven by private interest rather than public interest, amounts to malice in law and offends equality requirements in public employment. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 27 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=284030