In Brief
The appellant, disqualified from a bank recruitment selection process for non-production of a required certificate, challenged the decision claiming mistake and inadvertence. The Supreme Court upheld the disqualification, holding that the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS)—though conducting recruitment for banks—is a non-statutory voluntary organization. As IBPS is not a creature of statute and does not discharge statutory duties, its actions fall outside constitutional judicial review. The Court dismissed the appeal, ruling that procedural requirements set by private recruitment bodies need not meet the same constitutional scrutiny as statutory authorities.
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