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( <%( =#: ( ! & #>4(!*6.78.7 >>> >>> >>> 7 % / )/ 3 ) / 7 7 & ) ? ) ) ) ) / ) 0 9 $) " ) @ / 7% 7$ ) / ? ? ) =0 / ) 7% ) / ? ) 7 ) ) " ) 7% 7 1 3 ) 7 7 & " ) 0 9 $) RAJENDER KUMAR 2025.02.11 07:07 I attest to the accuracy and integrity of this document ) @7 A 7 0 3 / 7A ) 7 7 A ) ? ) @ 78 3 % ! $ # !&% % #! $ &$ @% !# % & notwithstanding that the Board of Officers were duly constituted to look into the said anomalies and that they had redrawn the merit list after removal of the said anomalies. A recommendation was made by the Board of Officers for accepting the redrawn merit list. He contends that the names of the petitioners were even figured in the said redrawn merit list after removal of the anomalies. Hence, there was no further clouds upon the process of selection or the merit list so prepared and hence, there was no objective rationale in scrapping the entire process of selection. Reliance is placed on the judgment in the matter of ‘Tej Prakash Pathak & Others Versus Rajasthan High Court & others’ Civil Appeal No.2634 of 2013, decided on 07.11.2024. The operative part of the same reads thus: RAJENDER KUMAR 2025.02.11 07:07 I attest to the accuracy and integrity of this document . “(F) APPOINTMENT MAY BE DENIED EVEN AFTER PLACEMENT IN SELECT LIST. 40. In Section (C) above, we have already noticed the Constitution Bench decision of this Court in Shankarsan Das (supra) where it was held: “Unless the relevant recruitment rules so indicate, the State is under no legal duty to fill up all or any of the vacancies. However, it does not mean that the State has the license of acting in an arbitrary manner. The decision not to fill up the vacancies has to be taken bona fide for appropriate reasons. And if the vacancies or any of them are filled up, the State is bound to respect the comparative merit of the candidates, as reflected at the recruitment test, and no discrimination can be permitted.” 41. Thus, in light of the decision in Shankarsan Das (supra), a candidate placed in the select list gets no indefeasible right to be appointed even if vacancies are available. Similar was the view taken by this Court in Subash Chander Marwaha (supra) where against 15 vacancies only top 7 from the select list were appointed. But there is a caveat. The State or its instrumentality cannot arbitrarily deny appointment to a selected candidate. 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