Case brief
What is this about?
Cooperative society recruitment to the post of Salesman; District Recruitment Bureau of Cooperatives, Dindigul; Puthu Ayakudi Primary Agricultural (D.D.525) Cooperative Credit Society, Palani Taluk; petitioner S.Kalidas, temporary employee, claimed weightage marks were not given; Application No.02556 dated 5.12.2017; respondents contended petitioner did not secure minimum cutoff mark - petitioner secured 15 marks against 22 and 21 marks secured by selected candidates (respondents 4 and 5, D.Chelladurai and K.Dinesh Kumar); petitioner held to be outside the zone of consideration; Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus under Article 226, Constitution of India; W.P(MD)No.21559 of 2019 with W.M.P(MD)Nos.18231 and 18233 of 2019; writ petition dismissed, no costs, miscellaneous petitions closed; Madurai Bench of Madras High Court; Justice C. Kumarappan; 12.09.2025.
What did the court decide?
On the respondents' showing that the Petitioner had not secured the minimum cutoff mark (Petitioner: 15 marks; selected candidates, respondents 4 and 5: 22 and 21 marks respectively), the Court held that the Petitioner had not come within the zone of consideration and that nothing survived for further adjudication in the Writ Petition.