Once those vacancies are filled in there cannot be any expectation that the candidates who were successful in the examination would automatically be appointed in any future recruitment drive–
We do not find anything to suggest that any indication was given to the intending applicants that they would be included in a “Panel” or “Waiting List” and would be considered for recruitment in the future. The advertisement in response to which the petitioners applied was for a finite number of vacancies. Once those vacancies are filled in there cannot be any expectation that the candidates who were successful in the examination would automatically be appointed in any future recruitment drive. We do not find that any such assurance was given by the authorities.
The High Court Division observed that from the records it appeared that initially on 20.08.2015 the Bank's Board of Directors (BoD) at its 435th meeting decided to recruit in the post of ‘Senior Officer’, ‘Officer’ and ‘Officer (Cash)’ as per vacancies arising on 31.12.2014 according to rankings in a merit list. This led to communications back and forth between the Bank’s BOD and the Ministry of Finance seeking the latter's approval of appointments in the vacancies. Significantly, in its communication of 01.09.2015 to the Ministry, the Bank confirmed, inter alia, that the merit list itself had a validity period till 13.08.2015. Hence, the applicants, though successful, cannot remain in expectation of being appointed after that date. All the civil petitions for leave to appeal are dismissed. ...Shamimul Ahsan(Md.)=VS=Ministry of Finance,Bangladesh,(Civil), 2020 [9 LM (AD) 68] ....View Full Judgment