Telangana HC sets aside 2019 provisional selection list for 1,032 Group-II posts; asks TGPSC to reevaluate process
This order comes six years after the recruits joined service across various departments
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Hyderabad: Telangana High Court has set aside the 2019 provisional selection list for 1,032 Group-II posts.
The court directed Telangana Public Service Commission (TGPSC) to re-evaluate the entire process in full conformity with earlier court mandates.
This order comes six years after the recruits joined service across various departments.
Court seeks strict compliance with technical panel report
Justice Nagesh Bheemapaka instructed TGPSC to redo the selection exercise in line with the March 2017 Technical Committee recommendations and previous high court directions.
The judge further ordered the commission to complete the revised process and issue appointment orders within eight weeks of receiving the judgment.
Petitioners flag tampering, irregular OMR entries
The batch of petitions before the court alleged that TGPSC had included candidates whose OMR sheets showed tampering, overwriting, erasures, and other prohibited markings, all violations under examination rules.
Petitioners argued they suffered serious prejudice as candidates with invalid answer sheets were allowed into the final list.
Counsel Chikkudu Prabhakar contended that even after the matter reached finality in the Supreme Court, the commission again included candidates with Part-B errors in the 2019 provisional list, defying explicit judicial directions.
TGPSC claims full compliance; Court not convinced
TGPSC defended its actions, stating that it had honoured the division bench judgment by removing ineligible candidates, publishing a revised list in November 2018, conducting interviews, and issuing the final list in October 2019.
“The process is in full conformity with the binding high court directions and the technical committee’s report,” it asserted.
However, the court disagreed, holding that TGPSC acted beyond its authority, violated prior rulings, and caused injustice to rule-abiding candidates.
HC warns ‘No More Adjournments’ in Group-I appeals
In a related development, a division bench led by Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh made it clear that no further adjournments will be entertained in the ongoing appeals concerning the TGPSC Group-I Mains results.
The bench extended the interim suspension of a single judge order that had earlier set aside the results declared on March 10 and the general rank list published on March 30.
The court posted the matter to December 12, clarifying that written submissions will not be accepted and that any Group-I appointments remain subject to the outcome of the writ appeals.
