In Brief
Four ad-hoc Fast Track Court District Judges in Andhra Pradesh challenged their exclusion from regularisation as Additional District Judges. The High Court allowed their writ petitions on the ground that no minimum qualifying marks requirement for the viva voce test was published in the advertisement or prescribed by the Rules. The Supreme Court partly upheld this, holding that the modalities in Brij Mohan Lal's case require only (1) qualifying marks in written examination, (2) participation in viva voce, and (3) a consolidated 40%/35% aggregate mark across both tests—not minimum marks in the interview alone. Two candidates scoring 99.7 and 99.3 (nearly the required 100) were treated as qualified; the other two, including one SC candidate, were given another opportunity to take the examination and interview within six months.
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