Supreme Court clears Telangana group-I mains results

HYDERABAD: The Group I mains examination results conducted by the Telangana Public Service Commission for 536 posts got a clearance from the Supreme Court, as it on Thursday dismissed a batch of petitions challenging a division bench of Telangana high court’s February order, which ended the legal deadlock on the selection process of 563 Group I conducted by the Telangana Public Service Commission.The bench comprising Justices Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta dismissed the petitions filed by the aspirants who first moved the Telangana High Court, wherein the single judge granted an order in their favour.Challenging the February order, which overturned the single judge order, the aspirants approached the Supreme Court. During the hearing, the petitioner’s counsels argued that there were discrepancies in the number of candidates qualified in the mains.

They further challenged the moderation process and alleged that injustice was done to Telugu medium candidates, as no evaluators expert in Telugu were a part of the evaluation process.Counsels for the commission and the successful candidates refuted the claims, stating that the matter was extensively argued at length before the division bench, each of the contentions raised by the petitioners was answered, presented with granularity and with graphic detail.

“We (commission) were put to extreme scrutiny. Each of the single judge findings may amount to the legal standard of perversity, while the division bench did a justifiable act,” said the counsels.Recording the submissions, the Supreme Court dismissed the petitions.