In Brief
The State of Odisha challenged a High Court order directing it to treat a respondent teacher as having secured 114.80 marks based on RTI-obtained information from an original 1997 selection list. The respondent had been terminated based on a later reselection list showing 109.86 marks, following a SAT-mandated fresh selection process. The Supreme Court held that the original select list had been legally set aside by the SAT and was not reckonable. The operative reselection list marks of 109.86 were correct and binding. The High Court erred in relying on superseded information rather than the final operative document, and its orders were set aside.
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