U.P. Public Services Commission vs Subhash Chandra Dixit & Ors

The Supreme Court upheld the decision of the Allahabad High Court which set aside the merit lists prepared by the Uttar Pradesh Public Services Commission (U.P.P.S.C.) for the Civil Judge (Junior Division) Examination, 2000, and the Provincial Civil Services examinations, citing the arbitrary application of a scaling system that violated principles of fairness and transparency. The Court emphasized that merit lists must be based on actual marks without scaling, reinforcing the legal principle that examination processes must be just and equitable. Consequently, the appeals by U.P.P.S.C. were dismissed, and fresh merit lists were ordered to be prepared based on actual scores.