Eligibility Criteria for Recruitment Cannot Be Changed Midway: SC

Tej Prakash Pathak & Ors. Vs Rajasthan High Court & Ors. (Supreme Court of India) Supreme Court held that eligibility criteria, notified at the commencement of the recruitment process, cannot be changed midway through the recruitment process unless the extant Rules so permit. Further, change would have to meet the requirement of Article 14 of the constitution. Facts- A three-Judge Bench of this Court while accepting the salutary principle that once the recruitment process commences the State or its instrumentality cannot tinker with the “rules of the game” insofar as the prescripti...