SC/ST Candidates Have No Entitlement to Relaxation in SFIO Prosecutor Appointment Criteria: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court recently delivered a judgment in Anant Kumar Rao v. Union Public Service Commission & Ors, clarifying that candidates belonging to Scheduled Caste (SC) or Scheduled Tribe (ST) categories do not have any enforceable right to seek relaxation of eligibility criteria in recruitment, even though the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has discretionary power to relax conditions. The matter arose from a 2022 UPSC notification inviting applications…