Supreme Court upholds Patna high court's order on recruitment of SIs
Debashish Karmakar | TNN | Apr 6, 2019, 22:55 IST
File photo of Supreme CourtPATNA: The Supreme Court has upheld a recent judgment of Patna high court allowing the Bihar Police Sub-ordinate Service Commission to go ahead with the recruitment process of appointing 1,717 sub-inspectors in the state.
A Supreme Court division bench of SA Bobde and S Abdul Nazeer on Friday dismissed the special leave petitions filed by disgruntled candidates challenging the high court judgment.
The March 5 Patna HC judgment, which was delivered by the division bench of Chief Justice Amreshwar Pratap Sahi and Justice Anjana Mishra, had directed the commission to declare the results of the selected candidates without any delay.
The recruitment process has been in limbo since September 5 last year after a single-judge bench of the high court stayed the publication of the final results, but allowed the commission to continue with the selection process.
On October 31, disposing of the writ petition filed by 195 candidates, the court directed the commission to recast the results of the main exam, following certain rules and regulations, which included formation of a panel of experts, uploading of questions and model answer keys on the commission’s website followed by inviting objections from candidates along with providing photocopies of OMR sheets to candidates through RTI for transparency.
The petitioners had moved the HC alleging flouting of set norms of recruitment process and large-scale irregularities in the selection of candidates.
However, the single-judge bench’s judgment was termed unsustainable and was set aside by the division bench on March 5, paving the way for completion of the recruitment process on the assumption that the petitioners had appeared in the examination with full knowledge of all rules and regulations of the recruitment process, including that there was no option for supplying copies of OMR sheets to the candidates.
After the HC division bench’s judgment, the commission had recommended the names of 1,665 successful candidates against the vacancies after finalising the recruitment process.
Altogether 29,359 candidates were selected to appear for the main examination held across 44 centres on July 22 last year. Based on its result, 10,161 candidates were declared fit to appear for physical efficiency tests.
A Supreme Court division bench of SA Bobde and S Abdul Nazeer on Friday dismissed the special leave petitions filed by disgruntled candidates challenging the high court judgment.
The March 5 Patna HC judgment, which was delivered by the division bench of Chief Justice Amreshwar Pratap Sahi and Justice Anjana Mishra, had directed the commission to declare the results of the selected candidates without any delay.
The recruitment process has been in limbo since September 5 last year after a single-judge bench of the high court stayed the publication of the final results, but allowed the commission to continue with the selection process.
On October 31, disposing of the writ petition filed by 195 candidates, the court directed the commission to recast the results of the main exam, following certain rules and regulations, which included formation of a panel of experts, uploading of questions and model answer keys on the commission’s website followed by inviting objections from candidates along with providing photocopies of OMR sheets to candidates through RTI for transparency.
The petitioners had moved the HC alleging flouting of set norms of recruitment process and large-scale irregularities in the selection of candidates.
However, the single-judge bench’s judgment was termed unsustainable and was set aside by the division bench on March 5, paving the way for completion of the recruitment process on the assumption that the petitioners had appeared in the examination with full knowledge of all rules and regulations of the recruitment process, including that there was no option for supplying copies of OMR sheets to the candidates.
After the HC division bench’s judgment, the commission had recommended the names of 1,665 successful candidates against the vacancies after finalising the recruitment process.
Altogether 29,359 candidates were selected to appear for the main examination held across 44 centres on July 22 last year. Based on its result, 10,161 candidates were declared fit to appear for physical efficiency tests.
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