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(a) Civil service--- ----Withholding of appointment due to restraining order of National Industrial Relations Commission---Locus poenitentiae, principle of---Applicability---Legitimate expectation, doctrine of---Promissory estoppel, doctrine of---Applicability-Petitioner was finally selected for appointment but appointment letter was not issued due to restraining order passed by the National Industrial Relations Commission---Validity---Once process of selection was completed in an ordinary manner, same could not be upset in an arbitrary manner---Process of recruitment was completed and all decisive steps had been taken for petitioner's appointment---Right had accrued to the petitioner for job against vacancy for which she had been selected---Any lapse or delay in executing formality would not render such process incomplete---Department had no power of locus poenitentiae to retract their steps---Department could have retracted its steps till such time that the merit list had not left the fold of their office---Once merit list was made public creating right in favour of petitioner then power of department to withheld the same had been taken away by law---Issuance of appointment letter was only consequential step which at the best be termed to be ministerial---Petitioner had been selected after securing the highest marks---Candidate developed legitimate expectation to be considered for appointment as soon as the lis before the National Industrial Relations Commission attained finality---Neither qualification for the post in question was altered nor post was abolished by the public authority---No valid reason had been rendered for denying the appointment to the petitioner---Public authority under the doctrine of promissory estoppel was bound to fulfill its promise to the citizen with regard to her inalienable right---Doctrine of legitimate expectation would come into play, in circumstances, and petitioner was entitled to get the benefit thereof---Ban imposed subsequent to the selection could not take away the right of the petitioner which had already accrued to her---Ban if any could at the best be applied retrospectively---No impediment or ban existed in employing…

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