India, Oct. 30 -- The Supreme Court has struck down a Karnataka law that sought to validate appointments arising from the Karnataka Public Service Commission's (KPSC) 2011 recruitment process, which had earlier been cancelled over findings of widespread corruption and nepotism.

A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and K Vinod Chandran declared the Karnataka Civil Services (Validation of Selection and Appointment of 2011 Batch Gazetted Probationers) Act, 2022, unconstitutional. The court held that the state legislature could not use a new law to override judicial decisions that had already upheld the cancellation of the recruitment process.

The bench also directed that appointments made under the disputed legislation must come to an end. It...