CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has directed the TN Public Service Commission (TNPSC) not to issue the appointment orders for Group-1 services.
A vacation bench comprising Justice P Jyothimani and Justice TS Sivagnanam, which granted the injunction while passing interim orders on a batch of writ appeals, requested the Registry to place the matter before the Chief Justice for constituting a special bench to hear the appeals in view of the public interest involved.
A total of 85,913 candidates wrote the preliminary examination conducted by the TNPSC on August 16 and 17, 2008, against 172 posts. Of them, 1,796 emerged successful.
Some of the unsuccessful candidates moved the High Court praying for a direction to the TNPSC to re-valuate their answer papers.
They contended that there were serious mistakes in some of the questions and or in the key answers to those questions. And a single judge had dismissed/disposed of them on April 30, 2009. Hence, the present appeal from V Balasubramanian of Porayar and four others. They contended that the single judge, after having concluded that there was illegality in the selection process, had failed to give the relief on a lame excuse of delay, which was factually incorrect.
The single judge had failed to see that numerous candidates had been wrongly selected and many were not selected due to these wrong key answers.