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The Andhra Pradesh High Court connected Tuesday dismissed each the petitions filed regarding preservation successful recruitment for Group-2 services by the AP Public Service Commission (APPSC).
Several candidates approached the High Court challenging the preservation points and sought cancellation of the Group-2 notification issued successful 2023. They demanded that the preservation roster beryllium followed successful accordance with the Supreme Court guidelines and requested the tribunal to cancel the aged notification and nonstop the issuance of a caller one. After proceeding the arguments, the tribunal dismissed the petitions.
In aboriginal 2025, the High Court allowed the APPSC to behaviour the Group-2 Mains exam contempt petitions, emphasising that halting the process would harm thousands of candidates who had cleared the prelims. The tribunal ruled that portion the Mains exam would continue, each last recruitment decisions would stay taxable to the judgement connected the preservation dispute, a cardinal constituent raised by the petitioners.
In effect to the notification for Group-2 services, the APPSC received arsenic galore arsenic 4,83,525 applications. Of them, 4,04,037 candidates appeared for the screening trial and 92,250 of them qualified for the Mains. Of them, 79,451 (86.12 %) candidates appeared for Mains conducted connected February 23, 2025 and 2,538 of them were called for certificate verification.
Speaking to The Hindu, the counsel for the State authorities (the respondents), Thandava Yogesh, who argued that the petitioners were seeking invalidation of the full recruitment process aft having failed either successful the preliminary oregon Mains examination, said entertaining specified petitions would unfastened floodgates of litigation by lakhs of unsuccessful candidates and paralyse the functioning of the recruiting agency.
He said the Commission had acted strictly arsenic per G.O. Ms. No. 5, which vests discretion with the APPSC to hole the qualifying marks and ratio for shortlisting candidates for the Mains examination.
Referring to the instauration of horizontal preservation for women, PWD, ex-servicemen and sports persons, raised by the petitioners, Mr. Yogesh said it was successful compliance with binding judicial precedents. He said though this G.O. was issued good earlier the notification, the petitioners did not situation it successful different recruitments conducted connected the aforesaid basis. Their belated situation successful the Group-2 recruitment was intelligibly an afterthought, helium said.
Mr. Yogesh said the grievance raised connected the roster points was wholly misconceived, arsenic the notification itself did not hole roster points. “Allocation of roster points arises lone astatine the signifier of last selection,” helium pointed out. He said the cardinal constituent was that the volition of the petitioners was not genuine. They raised a roster constituent grievance arsenic a specified excuse to unafraid different effort aft being unsuccessful successful the examination. “Whether roster points are fixed oregon not cannot amended oregon diminish the marks secured by a campaigner successful either the prelims oregon Mains. Hence, the grievance is simply a station nonaccomplishment thought, raised lone aft they recovered themselves unsuccessful,” helium maintained.
He said recruitments to nationalist posts cannot beryllium indefinitely stalled, pointing to the information that the past Group-2 notification was issued successful 2018 and thousands of aspirants had been waiting for years.
