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The Madras High Court connected Wednesday (October 8, 2025) dismissed a writ entreaty filed by the Tamil Nadu Uniformed Services Recruitment Board (TNUSRB) against a enactment database prepared nether the supervision of retired Chief Justice N. Paul Vasanthakumar for recruiting 621 Sub-Inspectors of Police and 129 Station Officers successful the Fire and Rescue Services Department.
The Second Division Bench of Justices R. Suresh Kumar and Hemant Chandangoudar held that the erstwhile Chief Justice had done a “wonderful exercise” by strictly pursuing the 69% preservation regularisation arsenic good arsenic the Supreme Court rulings and therefore, the tribunal was afloat satisfied with his work. The Bench refused to licence the TNUSRB to redraw the enactment database again.
The judges pointed retired that the enactment database had already been redrawn connected aggregate occasions since the issuance of the notification connected May 5, 2023, for recruiting 621 SIs (498 done nonstop recruitment and 123 from among in-service candidates). Subsequently, done an addendum, it was decided to enlistee 129 Station Officers (103 done nonstop recruitment and 26 from among in-service candidates) too.
After the behaviour of the written arsenic good arsenic carnal examinaitons, the provisional enactment database was published for each the 750 vacancies connected January 29, 2024. Immediately, a batch of writ petitions were filed successful the High Court complaining that the preservation argumentation had not been followed properly. Then, the TNUSRB conceded that definite errors had crept successful and agreed to revise the list.
Accordingly, a revised enactment database was published connected October 3, 2024. This excessively became a taxable substance of litigation with a ample fig of unsuccessful candidates questioning the selection. Justice C.V. Karthikeyan acceptable speech the revised database connected April 22, 2025, aft uncovering sedate irregularities and ordered the redrawal of the database erstwhile again nether the supervision of Mr. Vasanthakumar, erstwhile Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court.
The TNUSRB complied with the bid and the erstwhile Chief Justice prepared a caller enactment list. However, aft the submission of his report, the Board filed a writ entreaty contending that determination were inactive definite discrepancies successful pursuing the communal preservation and that the in-service candidates had been denied of the penchant to beryllium fixed to the Persons who had Studied successful Tamil Medium (PSTM) category.
However, not uncovering immoderate crushed to interfere with the erstwhile Chief Justice’s report, the Bench led by Justice Kumar said, it was a good settled instrumentality that the payment nether the PSTM class could beryllium availed lone astatine the archetypal lawsuit of entering State work and that it could not beryllium extended repeatedly to the aforesaid idiosyncratic during each different recruitment process.
The Bench directed the TNUSRB to people the last enactment list, based connected Mr. Vasanthakumar’s report, wrong 30 days and besides wage him an further remuneration of ₹5 lakh wrong a month. The judges directed the Board to wage further honorarium of ₹2 lakh each, isolated from an adjacent magnitude already paid, to 2 officers who had assisted the retired Chief Justice successful preparing the report.
