New Delhi, Sep 24 (PTI) The Supreme Court has said procedure must not be made a tool to “perpetuate injustice" by employing punitive measures and directed the Jharkhand Public Service Commission to conduct the medical test of a candidate who failed to appear for it in a competitive exam.

The candidate, belonging to the scheduled tribes category, qualified for the preliminary and mains exam of the Jharkhand Combined Civil Services Competitive Examination, 2021, held in January 2022, but failed to appear for medical test owing to confusion over the date.

A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta said it failed to understand why would the candidate intentionally omit to appear for the medical examination and thus, “be punished so disproportionately as has been done in this case".

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