2024 INSC 362 Reportable IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeal No. …………... of 2024 (@ Special Leave Petition (C) No. 5817 of` 2023) Deependra Yadav and others … Appellants Versus State of Madhya Pradesh and others … Respondents with Special Leave Petition (C) No. 23514 of 2023 & Special Leave Petition (C) No. 27620 of 2023 J U D G M E N T SANJAY KUMAR, J 1. Leave granted only in SLP (C) No. 5817 of 2023. 2. One lapse on the part of the State is all it took to generate this litigation, impacting multitudes of job aspirants in the State of Madhya Pradesh. The lapse was the amendment of an existing service rule on 117.02.2020 which was recalled thereafter on 20.12.2021, restoring the rule to its original position, but in the interregnum that amended rule was applied to an ongoing recruitment process. This prompted several challenges before the High Court of Madhya Pradesh at Jabalpur resulting in a spate of orders and directions leading up to these cases