NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday in its order dismissed a batch of petitions challenging the recruitment of 563 candidates by the Telangana Public Service Commission (TGPSC) for Group-1 posts.
The top court, while upholding the Telangana High Court's earlier order, rejected the batch of pleas filed by P Adhitya and others against TGPSC.
"We are not inclined to interfere with the impugned judgment(s) and order(s) passed by the High Court. The Special Leave Petition(s) are, accordingly, dismissed," said a two-judge Bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Vikram Nath and also comprising Justice Sandeep Mehta.
The apex court did not find any merit in the petitions filed challenging the HC order that had cleared the recruitment process.
It is to be noted that the Telangana HC had on February 6 this year upheld the recruitment of these 563 candidates for the Group-1 posts by TGPSC and allowed the state government to proceed with their appointments in various top administrative posts.
Following the dismissal of the pleas by the HC, the petitioners moved the top court by filing an appeal and challenging the same.
The petitioners had raised objections over the conduct and validity of the recruitment by filing an SLP in the top court.
"There is grave procedural and substantive infirmities in Group I Mains Examination conducted by the TGPSC to fill up 563 vacant posts, affecting 21,085 candidates. The Single Judge, after a meticulous 222-page judgment, found grave violations of the Commission's own Rules and Notification across ten separate issues and issued a proportionate, cost-effective remedy: to conduct re-evaluation with mandated moderation. The division Bench of the Telangana HC, by its order set aside that considered judgment," the SLP said.
The plea added several points challenging these recruitments, including that of dual hall tickets, non-transparent and biased centre allocation, unauthorised and opaque evaluation, complete absence of moderation, English qualifier inconsistency, systematic bias against Telugu medium candidates and many others.
The top court eventually discarded the grounds raised by the unsuccessful candidates while refraining from interfering with the well reasoned findings of the Telangana High Court's Division Bench and gave a go ahead to these 563 recruitments.