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The Supreme Court connected Friday (February 27, 2026) dismissed a Special Leave Petition (SLP) filed by the APPSC Group-I officers against the Andhra High Court bid to name them successful non-focal posts.
In its judgement dated February 11, the High Court directed that 326 candidates who qualified successful the Group-I introspection conducted by APPSC vide notification No.27/2018) and were fixed focal posts, beryllium shifted to non-focal ones wrong a week owed to allegations of gross irregularities successful the process of valuation of reply sheets.
However, the assignment of those candidates successful non-focal posts happened lone connected February 25 aft the past Chief Secretary K. Vijayanand did immoderate fire-fighting connected being reprimanded for not complying with the impugned order, and submitted his study the adjacent greeting (February 26).
Hearing the SLP connected February 27, a Division Bench of the Apex Court comprising Justices Rajesh Bindal and Vijay Bishnoi upheld the High Court bid portion expressing dissatisfaction implicit the aggrieved officers’ plea that they beryllium retained successful the said focal posts.
In the SLP, the aggrieved officers argued that the transportation and posting of civilian servants were incidents of enforcement medication and ordinarily immune from judicial interference absent mala fides oregon usurpation of statutory mandate.
They insisted that the High Court bid constituted an unwarranted intrusion into enforcement functioning.
The HC bid affected the cadre positioning, administrative authority, nationalist perception, and aboriginal promotional trajectory of the petitioners, they stated, maintaining that determination were neither compelling reasons nor demonstrable worldly that warrant their shifting to non-focal posts.
The petitioners claimed that the High Court passed the interim bid successful sheer usurpation of the principles of earthy justness and granted nary accidental to them to contention oregon respond to the order.
Senior advocator Jandhyala Ravi Sankar appeared connected behalf of the candidates who challenged the legality of the introspection reply sheets’ valuation process.
He powerfully objected to the grounds connected which the High Court bid was sought to beryllium overrided.
