...a declaration that the action of the High Court in preparing the selection list by prescribing minimum qualifying marks for the interview was arbitrary and illegal and seeking a direction to the High...preparing the fresh selection list by applying the requirement of minimum marks for interview also, is legal and valid?Re: Question (i...selections, the procedure adopted was that all candidates who passed the written examination by securing the minimum marks were called for interview and the interview marks were added to the written examin...

...had not been prepared by the members of the Selection Board fairly and judiciously in that those members had taken undue advantage of the marks awardable by them at the interview to favour the...list prepared by the Selection Board and of the constitution of a new Selection Board to prepare a fresh select list on the basis of only 15 per cent interview marks awardable to candidates as against...30 per cent interview marks awardable earlier, lest the power of the Selection Board to award interview marks may be utilised either to pull up unmerited candidates or pull down the merited candidates. Con...

...discussion and interview for selection of Assistant Engineers by the U.P State Electricity Board, is reasonable.3. The U.P State Electricity Board invited applications for filling up the posts of ...marks allocated for interview and group discussion were more than 20 per cent and hence the whole selection was liable to be quashed. Aggrieved against the judgment of the High Court, the appellants have...120 marks were allocated for written test and 80 marks for interview (40 for interview and 40 for group discussion) and thus it ∼comes to 40 per cent of the total marks for ...

...applicants appeared for interview before two Boards presided by two members of the Commission. The selection was made on the basis of marks given for viva voce and for academic performance. 100 marks were...submitted that since in the instant case the recommendation was to be made only on the basis of interview and hence in accordance with the past practice which is being followed consistently and for a number of years, 50% ...selection was made by the Commission during the period 1985-93 on the basis of interview and in all such selections the Commission had allocated 50% marks for academic achievement and 50% marks for...

...case, the rules of the game had been changed after conducting the written test and admittedly not at the stage of initiation of the selection process. The marks allocated for the oral interview had...the instant case as the finding of fact has been recorded by the courts below that there had been no transparency in awarding the marks in interview and the interview marks could not be same as that...considered the Orissa Judicial Service Rules which did not provide for prescribing the minimum cut-off marks in interview for the purpose of selection. This Court held that in absence of the enabling...

...should be attached to written test and interview depends upon the requirement of service for which selection is being made, but minimum cut-off marks could not have been prescribed for viva voce test...authority making rules regulating the selection, can prescribe by rules, the minimum marks both for written examination and interviews, or prescribe minimum marks for written examination but not for ...authority making the rules regulating the selection to prescribe the minimum marks both for written examination and interview. The question whether introduction of the requirement of minimum marks for ...

...repeated as to the allotment of 100 marks for interview and also mala fides attributed to certain persons to accommodate the private respondents. It is further stated that arbitrarily 100 marks were set apart for ..., for the appellants, their misrepresentation in this regard, is unfolded very clearly as already stated above. Further, the appellants, knowing the criteria fixed for selection and allocation of marks, did participate in t...selection method which involved allocation of 50% marks for academic performance and 50 marks for the interview. The very observations in Ashok Kumar Yadav case (1985) 4 SCC 417 would go to show that there...

...interview marks were manipulated so as to pull up undeserving applicants and downgrade those who had secured excellent marks in their Pre-University examination. It was said that a perusal of the marks lis...by giving less than 10 marks out of 75 marks. The petitioners' complaint is that after the interview the selection committee carried the marks given by them to Madras and there the Government has...were provided for awarding marks at the interview and therefore the power conferred on the selection committee is an arbitrary power which is capable of being misused and in fact has been misused. It...

..., regard must be had to the fact that the appellants were clearly on notice, when the fresh selection process took place that written examination would carry ninety marks and the interview, ten marks. The ...marks. Pursuant to this, a written test was held on 7-11-2004 followed by an interview on 12-12-2004. Results were declared on 31-12-2004 and the ninth to fourteenth respondent were appointed on Class...for the written examination and fifteen marks for the interview had been correctly issued by the District and Sessions Judge, Muzaffarpur who as a result, was directed to declare the results of all...

...and 40% marks obtained in their personal interview, both should be taken into consideration while preparing the final selection list, and this procedure should be followed strictly. The same procedure...is the circular dated 4-4-1995 which should govern the selection and consequently the selections ought to have been made by assigning 87 1/2% marks for written/trade test and 12 1/2% for the oral test (personal ...on 26-7-1996. The grievance of the writ petitioners before the High Court was that the Selection Committee, which conducted the personal interview, exercised the power of allotment of 25% marks...

...made on the basis of marks obtained in the qualifying examination and marks secured in the interview, in accordance with the K.S.C.S (Direct Recruitment By Selection) Rules, 1973 (hereinafter referred...to as ‘the Rules’). According to these Rules total marks for qualifying examination were kept at 100 and 50 for interview. Thus the marks allotted for interview amounted to 33.3 per cent of the total...marks out of 50 marks in the interview and 69.96 marks in the qualifying examination thus in all 99.46 marks out of 150. Appellant 2 obtained 24.83 marks in the interview and 66.40 ...

...candidates for admission to engineering colleges shall be fixed as interview marks; it also laid down the criteria for alloting marks in the interview. It appears that a similar order was issued in respect of medic...only laid down a clear policy and prescribed definite criteria in the matter of giving marks at the interview but also appointed competent men to make the selection on that basis. The order of the..., hold without better and more scientific material placed before us that selection by interview in addition to the marks obtained in the written examination is itself bad as offending Article 14 of...

...:(i) the 1982 Rules were ultra vires as no selection could be made only on the basis of interview ignoring the marks obtained in the written examination and/or academic...doubt that allocating 33 1/3 per cent of the total marks for oral interview is plainly arbitrary and unreasonable. It is significant to note that even for selection of candidates for the Indian....11. In the result, we allow these appeals in part and quash the rule made by the U.P State Electricity Board keeping 40 marks for interview and 40 marks for group...

...date of receipt of this order.”8. Aggrieved by the above directions and quashing of selection list and the fixation of minimum marks of 50% to be secured in the interview...institutions and selection for higher posts. In this connection, he relied on two judgments of this Court in Mehmood Alam Tariq v. State of Rajasthan (...interview and assessment of the confidential reports as prescribed in the Office Memorandum dated 9-7-1987. The marks prescribed for the written test, interview and confidential report were 50, 30...

...candidate from being selected, and that marks awarded by them in the interviews will merely be added to the written examination marks, for preparation of the merit list and selection list. We are referring to this ... 27. …Therefore, introduction of the requirement of minimum marks for interview, after the entire selection process consisting of written examination and interview was ..., after the entire selection process consisting of written examination and interview was completed, would amount to changing the rules of the game after the game was played; and (b) if the interviewers had to proce...

..., which interview marks being as high as 30% is irrational, especially, when it is showed that the difference between selection and non-selection was barely a few marks.”...Committee on its own fixed a total of 100 marks and assigned different marks for different academic qualifications, i.e., 10 marks for matriculation, 10 marks for intermediate and 40 ...interviewed by the Selection Committee for the posts available in the four colleges on the same day but at four different times, there was a great variation in the marks assigned to the appellant and the...

...appellants invited candidates ranking high in the merit list for interview and selection thereafter. The marks in the examination and the marks in the interview had been awarded by differ.... Candidates who were ranked sufficiently high on the basis of their marks in the written examination will be called for interview. The final selection will be on the basis of the aggregate marks obtained...by the candidate in the preliminary examination and interview and will be strictly according to merit.2. Accordingly on 9-12-1979, the written examination was conducted...

...who had a post-graduation degree had been awarded 10 marks and in the viva-voce, such PG candidates had been granted either 18 marks or 20 marks out of 20. That although the writ petitioners had performed exception...indicate the assessment of candidates individually made by the members of the Selection Committee and their overall merit including the marks awarded in the interview. That the absence of the award rolls...made by members of the Selection Committee and their overall merit including the marks awarded in the interview.iii) One of the Judges of the Division Bench, Justice Vinod...

.... 6 and 8 in the additional list. It is also stated in the counter-affidavit that 50% marks were given to the written test and 50% marks for the interview. That will not vitiate the selection as h...above. Interview was a mandatory step to be followed. In the matter of selection to the post of watchman, we feel it is more appropriate to set apart 50% marks for the interview. Physical fitness and...applicants, only 197 appeared therein. However, keeping in view the total number of posts which were required to be filled up, only 36 candidates who got the highest marks were called for interview...

...question raised before them, whether the allocation of 33 1/3 per cent of the total marks for the interview-test vitiated the selection procedure as arbitrary and unreasonable. It was held that it did...and reference was made to the fact that even for selection of candidates for the Indian Administrative Service the marks allocated for the interview-test were only 12.2 per cent of the total. It was...contention was that marks were awarded in the interview-test in a single lot instead of subdividing and awarding marks separately under various heads for the various matters tested in the interview...