The Supreme Court on Friday observed that-
"A successful civil services aspirant has no right to be allocated a cadre or place of appointment of his choice as a candidate for the All India service he opts for serving anywhere in the country with "eyes wide open."
According to Justice Hemant Gupta and Justice V. Ramasubramanian said, "The allocation of cadre is not a matter of right and the State has no discretion of allocation of a cadre at its whims and fancies."
The court also observed that consultation under Rule 5(1) of the Indian Administrative Service (Cadre) Rules, 1954 in respect of allocation of cadre is not required to be done with the State from which the candidate belongs. The mandate of Rule 5(1) of the Cadre Rules is satisfied when consultation is made with the State to which allocation is made.
The court allowed the appeal filed by the Union of India against a direction issued by the High Court of Kerala at Ernakulam on 28.02.2017 whereby a successful IAS Candidate was directed to allocate a selected candidate to the Kerala cadre of the All-India Service.