Chennai:
Madras High Court has ordered interim stay on Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission’s amended selection list of 652 candidates selected for various posts under the Combined Engineering Services (CES) Examinations.
The order was passed by Justice S Nagamuthu after hearing a petition by R V Vijayabhaskaran of East Gandhipuram in Komarapalayam in Nammakal district. Vijayabhaskar challenged the decision to amend the selection list by Controller of examinations, TNPSC, and secretary of TNPSC as discriminatory and unjustifiable. The judge also posted the hearing after two weeks.
Vijayabhaskaran in his submission said that he has applied for the post of assistant inspector of factories and wrote the CES exams. The petitioner submitted that his register number figured in the initial provisional list of 742 candidates.
He contended that after four months the Controiller of Examination of TNPSC published impugned amended list of 652 candidates provisionally selected for admission to certificate verification for the posts included in CES and he failed to find his register number.
Vijayabhaskar submitted that though a candidate who has passed an examination or whose name appears in the select list does not have indivisible right to be appointed, yet, appointment cannot be denied arbitrarily nor the selection test can be cancelled without giving proper justification.
He also submitted that the written exams was held on March 2, 2013, result published on October 4, 2013 and amended select list was published after lapse of one year on January 30, 2014. “This practice is fraught with dangers of favouritism and nepotism and it would open back door entry to the service,” he submitted.
He also argued that the action of the respondents in cancelling the earlier select list is not only discriminatory and also unjustifiable as the decision is not supported by any valid reasons.
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