https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=466851 Appointments to High Court and subordinate court posts must comply with the constitutional guarantee of equality of opportunity under Articles 14 and 16 and with applicable statutory selection rules; appointments made without fair publicity, open advertisement, prescribed selection procedures or adherence to rules are void ab initio and susceptible to quo warranto and related remedies. High Courts must re examine and, where necessary, amend rules to mandate advertisement (including a vernacular newspaper), eligibility screening, impartial selection bodies and may adopt centralised State/Zonal/Divisional selection and annual recruitment cycles; failure to follow these procedural safeguards renders selections vitiated. en-us Wed, 12 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:00:13 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=466851 Appointments to High Court and subordinate court posts must comply with the constitutional guarantee of equality of opportunity under Articles 14 and 16 and with applicable statutory selection rules; appointments made without fair publicity, open advertisement, prescribed selection procedures or adherence to rules are void ab initio and susceptible to quo warranto and related remedies. High Courts must re examine and, where necessary, amend rules to mandate advertisement (including a vernacular newspaper), eligibility screening, impartial selection bodies and may adopt centralised State/Zonal/Divisional selection and annual recruitment cycles; failure to follow these procedural safeguards renders selections vitiated. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 12 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=466851