☐The case involves the selection process for Assistant Engineers (civil) conducted by the U.P. State Electricity Board. The Board had been utilizing group discussion as a method for assessing candidates ... since 1979, a practice not widely adopted across other State Electricity Boards in India, except in Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. The Supreme Court's intervention was prompted by challenges to the allocation of marks for group discussion and interview, which petitioners argued was arbitrary and violated constitutional guarantees of equality.