New Delhi, Oct. 31 -- The Supreme Court has questioned the changing political positions of successive Karnataka governments in a 15-year-old recruitment scandal, observing that the state's shifting stances, depending on the "hues and colours" of changing political times, had left the aspirations of thousands of jobseekers in limbo while attempting to protect appointments flowing from a selection process tainted by "rampant corruption and blatant nepotism". Striking down a 2022 Karnataka law that sought to validate the recruitment of 362 gazetted probationers, a bench of justices JB Pardiwala and K Vinod Chandran said the legislation was an attempt to nullify judgments of the Karnataka high court and the Supreme Court in 2018, which had uphe...