JAIPUR: The high court on Thursday quashed and set aside the result of RAS (Mains) Examination, 2018, declared on July 9 this year directing the RPSC to declare the result afresh after prescribing the minimum qualifying marks for all categories of candidates and calling for interview at least twice the number of vacancies.
Court said the process had to be completed with in four months.
Counsel for the RPSC M F Baig said the RPSC will go for an appeal against the order.
The single bench of Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma issued the order on a petition by Kavita Godara and others.
The action of the RPSC to declare the result of RAS (Mains) Examination, 2018, as per the amended Rule June 09, 2020, is also declared illegal, said the court. The court directed the RPSC to declare the revised result as per the Rule 15(3) existing prior to amended rule, said counsel for the petitioner Vigyan Shah.
Under the earlier rule, the RPSC had to fix a common qualifying mark for all the categories and thereafter should have called for interview at least two to three times the number of candidates against vacancies for selection. In the present merit list, the RPSC has called for interview only one and half time the number of vacancies with no common qualifying marks fixed and different cut off percentage for various categories of candidates.
Earlier, the high court had stayed the interviews which were scheduled for December 7 after some departmental candidates approached the court with the charge of inclusion of ineligible candidates under departmental quota and ex-service men.
The RPSC agreed to remove 78 ineligible departmental candidates and 19 ex-servicemen from the list. Now, the RPSC has been called upon to issue a fresh list.