....” (2008) 3 SCC 512 at p. 524The above, and statements to the similar effect have petrified into a rule of law in th...marks each followed by a personal interview for 50 marks. 21 candidates appeared for the abovementioned examination of whom only three candidates were declared successful by the first respondent...-2011 Civil Writ No. 2174 of 2010.4. From the reply filed by the first respondent in the writ petition as reflected in the judgment under appeal, it appears that after...

...by Article 16 of the Constitution. The reference order therefore acknowledges this legal position and in clear terms accepts that 'the rules of the game' cannot be changed after commencement of the...eligibility to be placed in the select list, after the game is played, may seriously prejudice a candidate on two counts. First, the candidate may not put in effort more than required for achieving the...midway through the game, or after the game is played, is predicated on the rule against arbitrariness enshrined in Article 1412of the Constitution. Article...

...player chooses his colour and puts a rupee on it; he is given four darts; if the player places all four darts on squares of the pre-selected colour on the target he is paid four rupees; apparently he...therefore said that the difficulty of hitting the precise target selected is so great that success must necessarily be dependent on what is ordinarily called a fluke. In this connexion I may observe...at 5 p.m to ascertain whether the game was still being carried on and upon his reporting that it was still in operation, another police officer who was the first witness for the prosecution in the...

...any individual square of the colour selected by him although he had in fact aimed at another square of the same colour; and it is therefore said that the difficulty of hitting the precise target...for organizing the game, there is no need of taking any permission, but subsequently he has withdrawn it, as stated above. 7. The first point learned Deputy Government 'Advocate' has...had an alternative remedy and he should have exhausted that remedy first. 8. The second point is whether the game which the petitioner wanted to organise is a game of chance, or a...

...hardly be credited with skill for success in the game. The forecast is nothing better than a shot at a hidden target. Whether a particular video game is a game of skill or a game of chance, or mixed chance...) includes any article used or intended to be used as a subject, or means of gaming, any document used or intended to be used as a register or record of evidence of any gaming, the proceeds of any gaming and...purpose of gaming. “Instruments of gaming” has been defined to include any article used or intended to be used as a subject or means of gaming, any document used or intended to be used as a register or...

...of those on whose behalf the argument is advanced is before this Court to make any such grievance. We have, in the light of the above, no difficulty in rejecting the first limb of the submissions made...many a times even after the first ball and again commencing even after the last ball is played thereby interrupting the full and proper broadcast of the game. Regardless of the wicket that has fallen..., even after the first ball and again commencing even before the last ball of the over is played, thereby interrupting the full and proper broadcast of the game. Regardless of the wicket that has fallen...

...guilty of betting is certainly acting against the spirit of the game and bringing disrepute to it. Article 7 of the Code empowers the match referee or the Commissioner to impose suitable sanction...Rajasthan Royals. Franchise agreements were, pursuant to the auction, signed by BCCI with the franchisees concerned.6. On 27-9-2008 Mr N. Srinivasan was elected as the...bringing the team to disrepute and violating Sections 2.2.1 and 2.14 of the IPL Operational Rules besides Articles 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3 of the IPL Anti-Corruption Code and Article 2.4.4 of the IPL Code...

...the First Class or the District Superintendent of Police or the Inspector of Police in the city and the suburbs of Hyderabad, on credible information and after such enquiries as he may deem necessary...made two points. He first referred to S. 14 of the Act which provides that nothing done under the Act shall apply to any game of mere skill wherever played and he was of opinion on the authority of two...matters which in his opinion bring this club within the said definition. The first was a charge of 5 points per game which according to him was being levied on each game of Rummy. He next points out that...

...had categorically stated that the Government of India does not control the Board and that it is not a State under Article 12 of the Constitution. He pointed out from the said affidavits that the first...employee works would also have to be treated as State. The prerequisite for invoking the enforcement of a fundamental right under Article 32 is that the violator of that right should be a State first.... Therefore, if the argument of the learned counsel for the petitioner is to be accepted then the petitioner will have to first establish that the Board is a State under Article 12 and it is violating the...

...(2002) 4 SCC 638, it was held as under :“7. So far as the first question is concerned, Article 141 of the Constitution unequivocally...the U.P. Reservation Act, 1994. The power under Article 142 of the Constitution of India cannot be exercised to issue direction to the first respondent State to issue appointment orders to 906...Court erred in relying upon K. Manjusree v. State of A.P. (2008) 3 SCC 512...

...(2008) 3 SCC 512 on the point whether “… changing the rules of the game after the game was played … is clearly impermissible” and has made a...(2008) 3 SCC 512, squarely applies to the facts of this case. In Manjusree (2008) 3 SCC 512, 75 marks were...rules of the game could not have been changed after the game is played and the result of the game is known to the selectors.5. Though several other contentions are ...

...one of darts. This is how the game was said to have been played. A board with a number of squares in six colours is kept leaning against the wall. On a table near it is placed a board showing the same...thrower and the game of throwing darts is a game of skill, so far as the person throwing is concerned. When A4 was helping only that person it cannot be said that he committed any offence. I therefore set...six colours. If a person places money on any of those colours on the table he will be given three darts. If he throws the darts and strikes the colour on which he had placed his money he will be given...

...out that a review proceeding virtually amounts to a re-hearing. May be, we were not right is refusing special leave in the first round; but, once an order has been passed by this Court, a review...thereof must be subject to the rules of the game and cannot be lightly entertained. A review of a judgment is a serious step and reluctant resort to it is proper only where a glaring omission or patent...

...are its shareholders. It is indisputably a “State” within the meaning of Article 12 of the Constitution of India. The appellant herein was appointed as a worker in the services of the Company in the...first in the written examination. The said written examination was conducted by the Kerala State Productivity Council in terms of the resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company dated 13-6-2000...whether the State could reduce the cut-off marks. If the cut-off mark specified by the State is arbitrary, Article 14 would be attracted. The Tribunal did not have any jurisdiction to pass an interim order...

...1. National Amateur Gymkhana and one Nathubhai Ramsinh filed this petition under Article 226 of the...power under Article 226 of the Constitution of India can be exercised.“The following categories of cases...can be stated by way of illustration wherein the extraordinary power under Article 226 or the inherent powers under Section 482 Cr PC can be exercised by the High Court either to prevent abuse of the...

...was being given four darts; if the player places all the four darts on squares of the pre-selected colour on the target, he is paid three rupees; apparently he used to get a rupee for every successful...from the target; between him and the target was a table on which were placed cardboard squares bearing coloured discs and the players used to choose their colours and put the rupee coins on it; he...petitioner Babubhai was granted any licence for conducting the above game. Hence the first contention raised by Mr. S.D Vyas has got no force and it deserves to be rejected.9. As regards the...

...are: that an advertisement dated 4-2-2008 was published by the respondent authorities calling for applications from eligible candidates as well as from those who were registered with the Employment.... State of A.P (2008) 3 SCC 512 this Court held that selection criteria has to be adopted and declared at the time of commencement of the...Hemani Malhotra v. High Court Of Delhi . (2008) 7 SCC 11 this Court has held that it was not permissible for the employer to change the criteria of selection...

...unreported judgments of this Court in Crl.M.C. No. 4077 of 2018 and Crl.M.C. No. 8949 of 2017, wherein the learned Single Judge had quashed the First Information reports submitted by the Police officer...proposition. The above said observation has necessarily to be read with the first sentence in paragraph 12 of the judgment which says that protection of Section 14 is available in the case. Section 14...purview of gaming going by the judgment, wherein the Hon'ble Supreme Court was considering the game of horse-racing. c) The Division Bench has extracted paragraph 20...

...of different sets of examination papers. As there was possibility of variation in the difficulty level of the questions papers, it had decided that for preparation of merit list of successful...of variation in the difficulty level of the question papers and, even if this was so, moderation of question papers itself was required to be done by the Selection Board. Looking to the pattern of...following submissions:—44. The first submission is that the normalization is an universally approved standard method applicable in case of variable difficulty level of question papers...

...application under Article 226 of the Constitution in the Calcutta High Court and that S.C Deb, J., had been pleased to issue a rule nisi and also an injunction restraining the Government of Bihar and the...in which the first respondent was filing repeated applications and procuring orders from a learned Single Judge of the High Court, necessitating the filing of as many appeals to the Division Bench...filing an application under Article 226 of the Constitution in the Calcutta High Court, whereas in the normal course one would expect such an application to be filed in the Patna High Court within...