The Supreme Court of India, in a significant ruling on service jurisprudence, has held that an erroneous concession on a question of law made by a counsel before a court is not binding on the client, particularly when it contravenes statutory recruitment rules. A bench of Justice Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha and Justice Atul S. Chandurkar also reiterated the settled legal principle that a candidate on a waitlist has no vested right to appointment, and any such right extinguishes once all advertised vacancies are filled by the selected candidates.

The Court set aside a judgment of the Calcutta High Court that had directed the Union of India and All India Radio to absorb a waitlisted candidate from a 1997 recruitment process based on an assurance given by their counsel before the Central A

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