Bihar told not to annul selection of junior engineers

TERMING it "impermissible", the Supreme Court on Friday set aside Bihar government's decision to scrap the 2019 selection process for the appointment of over 6,000 junior engineers in the state's water resources department.

- SUCHITRA K MOHANTY

A two-judge bench of Justices Bela M Trivedi and Satish Chandra Sharma delivered the verdict after hearing an appeal against the Patna High Court order, which closed the pending cases against the scrapping of appointment process after noting the state's decision.

Scrapping the entire selection process after its completion "amounts to effectively changing the rules of the game after the game was played, which is impermissible," observed the top court bench.