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The judgement of A. K. Kraipak vs. Union of India (AIR 1970 SC 150) is related to

In A.K. Kraipak v. Union of India (1969) 2 SCC 262, Naqishbund was both a candidate for the Indian Forest Service and a member of its selection board. He withdrew when the…

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The judgement of A. K. Kraipak vs. Union of India (AIR 1970 SC 150) is related to

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In A.K. Kraipak v. Union of India (1969) 2 SCC 262, Naqishbund was both a candidate for the Indian Forest Service and a member of its selection board. He withdrew when the board considered his own name but participated when it considered his rivals. The Supreme Court set the selections aside because there was a reasonable likelihood of bias.

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Naqishbund was a candidate and sat on the board that considered his rivals. That personal interest gave rise to a reasonable likelihood of bias.

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The defect arose from a board member's personal interest in the outcome of his own selection. Official bias concerns a predisposition attributable to an institutional role or policy.

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The Court's reasoning centered on the board member's position as a rival candidate. It did not turn on a separate financial stake of the kind associated with pecuniary bias.

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The defect arose from Naqishbund's own candidacy. A predisposition concerning the general subject of the decision was not the basis of the holding.

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