Selection Board

  1. It is not the function of Selection Board to decide whether rules needed to be re-enacted or re-considered. It is for the concerned department to form an opinion. Mushtaq Ahmad v. Azad Govt. and 3 others 1999 SCR 77 (C)
  2. Power of Court — Contention that instead of directing the concerned authority to refer the matter to the Selection Board, this Court itself could give relief to Dr. Zafar Ahmad in terms that he would be deemed to have been promoted from 26.12.1996 instead of Dr. Shabbir Ahmad — After considering the matter, we are of the opinion that it would be in the fitness of things if the question of promotion of the contending parties is considered by the Selection Board, especially so because the promotion on 26.12.1996 to grade B-18 could be made only one of the contending parties in view of the vacancy available at the relevant time. Zafar Ahmad Khan v. Azad Govt. and 4 others 2002 SCR 247 (C)
  3. Selection Board or the Selection Committee is in fact of substitute of Public Service Commission which all are basically recommendatory bodies whose recommendations may or may not be accepted by the competent authority — Appellants aggrieved after issuance of notification by Government — Held: Selection Board was not a necessary party to be impleaded as respondent in appeal before Service Tribunal. Dr. Abdul Ghaffar Sulehria v. Azad Govt. & 4 others 2008 SCR 230 (F)
  4. Findings recorded by Selection Board are not sacrosanct and immune from judicial review. Dr. Abdul Ghaffar Sulehria v. Azad Govt. & 4 others 2008 SCR 230 (J)
  5. It is by now a settled law that even smallest cog of the State machinery has to work strictly under law and where due rights are denied to a civil servant, the order or recommendations must be well reasoned — Held: Findings recorded by a Selection Board or authority can be looked into by the Court and concerned Tribunal. Dr. Abdul Ghaffar Sulehria v. Azad Govt. 2008 SCR 230 (K)
  6. Selection Board/Committee — recommendation of — Status — The Selection Board or the Selection Committee is in fact a substitute of Public Service Commission which all are basically recommendatory bodies, whose recommendations may or may not be accepted by the competent authority. Dr. Javed Akhter Rathore v. Dr.Abdul Khalid & 3 others 2016 SCR 1634 (B) 
  7. —Selection Board is substitute of PSC —while evaluating the merit of the civil servants for the purpose of promotion and giving an edge to one of the contesting candidates over the others, it has to consider the service record and the policy for promotion strictly while giving reasons. Held: where reasons are not given by the Selection Board then it can safely be concluded that the assessment made by the Selection Board was subjective and not objective. Tasaddaq Hussain v. Azad Govt. & others 2019 SCR 670 (A)
  8. —Promotion—determination of merit— non-assessment and consideration of service particulars mentioned in the working paper—private-respondent, promoted mainly on the basis of senior position in the lower grade which alone was not sufficient. Held: this assessment, in our view, is not correct. Tasaddaq Hussain v. Azad Govt. & others 2019 SCR 670 (C)
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