Raja Karanchat Basumatary and 198 Ors. v. the State of Assam and 155 Ors.
Assam Survey and Settlement Training Centre Rules, 1991 – Note 1 to Rule 23; Chapter III
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Gauhati High Court Division Bench (Ashutosh Kumar, CJ and Arun Dev Choudhury, J) in WA/209/2025, judgment dated 08.06.2026, dismissed in limine the writ appeal by 199 candidates against the judgment dated 16.05.2026 of the learned Single Judge in WP(C) No.2785/2024. The appellants, recommended by the Bodoland Territorial Council for six months Recorders' Certificate Class Course training at the Assam Survey and Settlement Training Centre, Dakhingaon vide letter dated 28.03.2023 without any public advertisement, were denied admission on 17.01.2024; 150 private respondents selected by entrance examination pursuant to a public advertisement under the Assam Survey and Settlement Training Centre Rules, 1991 (Note 1 to Rule 23; Chapter III) were admitted. Held: the private respondents' admission could not be doubted; the BTC's stand that the appellants' names were not recommended in consonance with the Rules of 1991 precluded the appellants from raising any other ground; the Single Judge's judgment was upheld. No order as to costs.