New Delhi, October 18: Discretionary relaxation or alteration in requisite eligibility qualification, relating to appointments or admissions, cannot be allowed at the fag end of the process, the Delhi High Court has said.
“The general rule is that while applying for a post or admission a person must possess the eligibility qualification on the last date fixed unless there is an express provision to the contrary. There can be no relaxation in the matter of holding the requisite eligibility qualification by the date fixed,” Justice Sunil Gaur observed.
The court’s observation came in a verdict on the plea of Raghunath Prasad Saket, who was not only denied appointment to the post of lecturer in Economics in a Delhi University (DU) college but another candidate was preferred over him following the alteration in the eligibility criteria.
–PTI