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RAM KUMAR PATEL & ORS. ETC. versus STATE OF U.P. & ORS. ETC.

Citation: [2017] 6 S.C.R. 430 · Decided: 25-07-2017 · Supreme Court of India · Bench: ADARSH KUMAR GOEL · Disposal: Appeal(s) allowed

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[2017] 6 S.C.R. 430 
RAM KUMAR PATEL & ORS. ETC. 
v. 
STATE OF U.P. & ORS. ETC. 
(Civil Appeal No. 9546 of2017) 
JULY25,2017 
[ADARSH KUMAR GOEL AND UDAY UMESH LALIT, JJ.) 
Uttar Pradesh Basic Education (Teachers) Service Rules, 1981: 
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Amendment of l 981 Rules - By Uttar Pradesh Basic 
Education (Teachers) Service (161h Amendment) Rules, 2012 -
Propriety of - High Court quashed the 20 l 2 amendment on the 
ground that the amendment by the State was in conflict with the 
Notification dated l l'h February, 201 l issued by the Central 
Government - On appeal, held: There is no conflict in the 
D Notification issued by the Central Government and the amendment 
to the Sta_te Rules since weightage to the Teachers Eligibility Test 
marks in the process of appointment of teachers, was not mandatory 
and was merely a guideline - Therefore, State Rule cannot be held 
to be void on the ground of repugnancy - Appeals allowed -
E Constitution of India - Schedule VII, List III, Entry 25. 
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Shiv Kumar Pathak v. State of U.P. 2017 (7) JT 352 : 
2017 (8) SCALE 202 - relied on. 
Prabhakar Singh v. State of U.P. (2013) 1 ADJ 651 -
approved. 
Shiv Kumar Sharma v. State of U.P. (2013) 6 ADJ 310 
- referred to. 
Case Law Reference 
2017 (7) JT 352 
relied on 
Para2 
(2013) 1 ADJ 651 
approved 
Para7 
(2013) 6 ADJ 310 
referred to 
Para 7 
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RAM KUMAR PATEL & ORS. 
v. STATE OF U.P. & ORS. 
431 
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION: Civil Appeal No. 9546 
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of2017. 
From the Judgment and Order dated 04.07.2016 of the High 
Court of Judicature at Allahabad in Writ-A No. 26952of2016 
WITH 
Civil Appeal Nos. 9547, 9548, 9549, 9551, 9550, 9706, 9710, 
9554, 9715, 9716, 9718; 9719 and 9720 of2017 
ยท Writ Petition (Civil) Nos. 900 and 107 of2016 
Writ Petition (Civil) No. 167 of2015. 
Ajay Kumar Mishra, Sr.Adv.(AAG,UP), R. S. Suri, K.T.S. Tulsi, 
Salman Khurshid, Dinesh Dwivedi, Colin Gonsalves, V. Shekhar, Nidesh 
Gupta, Mahabir Singh, Ms. Meenakshi Arora, Pallav Sisodia, 
R. Venkataramani, Ranji Thomas, Nagendra Rai, Rakesh Khanna, 
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Sr. Advs., R. K. Singh, Kumar Gaurav, B.N. Dubey, Ms. Neeraj Singh, 
Tom Joseph, Ms. PriyankaAggarwal, Rameshwar Prasad Goyal, Nishant 
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Singh, Krishnan Mishra, Yasharth Kant, V. K. Mishra, Ms. Radhika 
Dwivedi, Ms. Lubna Naaz, Ms. Kunika, Ms. Tehsina Wasim, 
Ms. Sanchita, Kundan Kumar Lal, Ms. Robin Khokhar, P. Dayal, 
Sajith P., Swarupama Chaturvedi, Pradeep Kumar Dwivedi, Ms. Madhu 
Bala, Pradeep Kr. Tiwari, Pyush Pandey, Dr. Vi nod Kumar Tewari, Dr. 
B.K. Jauhari, Ms. Purnima Jauhari, Deepak Anand, Ms. Parul Shukla, 
Udayaditya Banerjee, Ms. Anannya Ghosh, E.C. Agrawala, Dheeraj 
Dubey, Mrs. Shally Bhasin, Manoj K. Mishra, Umesh Dubey, Ms. Nazish 
Fatima, Nachiketa Joshi, Sandeep Kumar Dwivedi, Vivek Tewari, Pankaj 
Singh, Anupam Dwivedi, Satyam Pandey, Amit Pawan, Dhananjay Garg, 
Pratham Kant, Nirmal Singh B. Sanjay Singh, Raj Kishor Chaudhary, 
Anuvrat Sharma, Ms. Alka Singh, M. R. Shamshad, Ms. Asha Gopalan 
Nair, Ms. Nivedita Nair, Pitamber Dutt Nautiyal, Sanoth Rebello, Rakesh 
Mishra, Yashraj Singh Bundela, Rakesh Mishra, Prashant Shukla, 
T.D. Bhaskar, Satyajeet Kumar, Dinesh Kr. Tiwari, Mrs. Rajmala Dohare, 
Ra1111esh Thakur, Swami Nath, Bishnu Prasad Tiwari, Sal'ttosh Kr. Tripathi, 
Amit Pawan, Abhishek Asmritanshu, Anand Nandan, Akshat Srivastav, 
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Gaurav Singh, Hassan Zubhair Waris, Akshay Sinha, Suryodaya Prakash 
Tiwari, Rahul Kumar Tripathi, Harish Pandey, Rakesh Mishra, 
Ankit Mishra, Sujeet Kumar, P. Gautam, Ms. Reena Patel, Mehul M. 
Gupta, R. P.Gupta, Anupam Mishra, Shashank Mishra, Ms. Dwarka 
Sawale, Ms. Manju Jetley, Advs. for the appearing parties. 
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SUPREME COURT REPORTS 
[2017] 6 S.C.R. 
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The Judgment of the Court was delivered by 
ADARSH KUMAR GOEL, J. I. Leave granted. This batch 
of appeals has arisen from the judgment dated I" December, 2016 of 
the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad in Special Appeal No.657 of 
2015 1 and batch of the High Court ofJudicature at Allahabad. The High 
. B 
Court has quashed the U.P. Basic Education (Teachers) Service (I 61h 
Amendment) Rules, 2012 on the ground that the said amendment was 
in conflict with the Notification dated 11 โ€ขh February, 2011 issued by the 
National Council of Teachers Education (NCTE). 
2. It is not necessary to discuss the issue in detail as in the 
c impugned judgment the High Court has followed its earlier judgment in 
Shiv Kumar Pathak v. State of U.P.2 wherein the issue of validi

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