Evaluate TGT and PGT candidates’ answer scripts: Hyderabad HC

HYDERABAD:  In a relief to the aspiring candidates for the posts of Trained Graduate Teacher (TGT) and Post Graduate Teacher (PGT) in residential educational institution societies, the High Court on Thursday directed the Telangana State Public Service Commission to evaluate the answer scripts (OMR sheets) of the petitioner candidates who appeared for the preliminary test for recruitment to the above posts.

“In the present cases, the candidates admittedly committed a mistake in bubbling (to blacken OMR sheets to furnish the details such as hall ticket/roll number, test booklet series, paper code, venue code and so on though they wrote the number correctly in the boxes provided for the purpose.

Even if it involves some manual error, such type of answer scripts can be valued as it does not relate to the merit of the candidate”, the court observed. Justice A Ramalingeswara Rao was allowing a batch petitions filed by aspiring candidates urging the HC to declare as illegal the action of TSPSC in not evaluating their OMR sheets of preliminary test held in pursuant of notification issued in April for the above posts.

CBI COURT awards 5 RI in cheating case

The CBI Court on Thursday sentenced two bank officials and three persons to rigorous imprisonment and
imposed fine in the case of cheating Vijaya Bank. The accused P Radha Gopal Reddy, Uday Shankar, both
bank officials, and other accused B Ramanaji Rao, Sai Sita Rama Rao and AV Subba Rao are among those
convicted and sentenced in the above case registered in Nov 2005.