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Supreme CourtSupreme Court of India

Gaurav Mehla v. State of Haryana (2026): a recruitment defect confined to the appointment stage is curable, not void ab initio

The Supreme Court analytically split a public recruitment into three stages — advertisement, selection by interview, and the formal appointment decision — and held that the absence of statutorily mandated official members from the appointing Board's meeting under amended Rule 3 did not vitiate an otherwise fair and transparent recruitment; the defect was curable by reconvening a properly constituted Board, not fatal, especially where the appointees bore no responsibility and had served over a decade.

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