India, Nov. 12 -- Qualified doctors and nurses should not be denied consideration for positions due to a narrow or restrictive interpretation of the prescribed eligibility criteria, the Delhi high court said while pulling up the recruiting panel.

A bench of Justices C Hari Shankar and Nivedita Anil Sharma said the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) adopted a legally unsustainable and unnecessarily myopic view as it heard its plea against a Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT)'s January 29 order in favour of a woman rejected for a nursing officer (allopathic) post advertised in January 2024.

The candidature of the woman, possessing a post-basic BSc nursing qualification, was rejected because she obtained registration after the prescribed ...