KOZHIKODE: If the PSC takes a decision to reshuffle the Sub Inspector ranklist as per the High Court verdict, the future of about 50 probationary sub inspectors, who are undergoing training at the Police Academy, Thrissur, will be in tatters.
According to the officials, the board meeting of the PSC to be held on Monday will consider the direction to reshuffle the Sub Inspector (General Executive) ranklist by preparing separate ranklists as main and supplementary.
Following the verdict, 47 officers among the first batch of 280, who were appointed on reservation quota and have been undergoing training, will be terminated from the service.
“The meeting to be held on Monday will take up the matter and the decision of the PSC cannot be disclosed now,” said K S Radhakrishnan, PSC chairman.
It was in 2012, the PSC decided to conduct a descriptive examination for the 2,712 candidates who qualified the preliminary written examination, after three cases were registered alleging malpractice and sending of answers via SMS. Later, a ranklist comprising 868 candidates was published and 265 candidates were appointed.
Many candidates coming under the reservation category of SC, ST, OBC, Ezhava and Muslim got high ranks in the descriptive examination and they were placed above in the ranklist. The Kerala Administrative Tribunal (KAT), considering the plea of a group of candidates, issued a ruling to reshuffle the ranklist on February 20. Later, on August 8, the High Court also upheld the ruling of KAT, though PSC challenged this in the HC.
Right now, 47 candidates, who were appointed under reservation category from the list, are facing termination if the ranklist is reshuffled.
Candidates named in the ranklist allege that the apathy shown by the lawyers of the PSC led to the failure of the case in the HC.
“UPSC and PSCs of other states are conducting recruitments through this method. The shocking fact is that the candidates who got 49 marks (cutoff mark) in the prelims will come in the mainlist and those who secured high marks in the main exam and less than 49 in the prelims will come in the supplementary list,” said a probationary SI from Thrissur.