LAWS(SC)-2025-3-25

STATE OF ASSAM Vs. ARABINDA RABHA

Decided On March 07, 2025
STATE OF ASSAM Appellant
V/S
Arabinda Rabha Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) A process of recruitment was set in motion by the office of the Principal Chief Conservator of Forest & Head of Forest Force, Assam(PCCF) Government of Assam, by issuing an advertisement dtd. 23/7/2014 to fill up of 104 posts of Constables in the Assam Forest Protection Force(AFPF).

(2.) Process of selection was conducted in May, 2016. The respondents, who had applied pursuant to the advertisement, participated in the process. They qualified in the physical efficiency test(PET) whereafter they were interviewed. It was claimed by the respondents that the select list prepared by the Central Selection Committee, headed by the then PCCF, contained names of candidates found, prima facie, fit for selection and appointment as Constables in the AFPF and that such list, wherein their names figured, had been submitted to the Government for approval.

(3.) In May, 2016 itself, there was a change in the political regime of Assam pursuant to the elections held to the Assam Legislative Assembly.