The Telangana High Court said the ‘inconsistent and shifting grounds employed by the Telangana State Public Service Commission (TGPSC) successful dealing with section candidature was undermining the credibility’ of its determination making process.
A seat of Justices P. Sam Koshy and Narsing Rao Nandikonda, dismissing an entreaty filed by the TGPSC questioning a azygous justice bid implicit section presumption of a campaigner who appeared for enactment Assistant Executive Engineer post, upheld the azygous justice order. Taking a superior enactment of the ‘inconsistent and shifting grounds’ of TGPSC implicit section status, the seat said specified actions would besides offend the request of azygous exertion of the Presidential Order.
The seat noted that sometimes the Commission’s rejection of section presumption was premised connected alleged lack of 4 consecutive world years and different time, it premised connected the circumstances that classes First to Seventh were pursued extracurricular Telangana. “Such fluctuating reasons — erstwhile precocious to prolong the aforesaid adverse result — disclose non-application of caput and nonaccomplishment to travel settled guidelines successful a accordant and legally sustainable manner,” the seat said successful the judgment.
The part seat noted that the Commission, being a statutory body, was expected to strictly comply with the governing order, travel unchangeable standards and debar litigation that hold appointments. Such actions would unfairly load the candidates also, it said. “Instituting and pursuing litigation connected shifting premises without demonstrating a wide statutory mandate for the disqualification advanced, results successful needless wastage of time, nationalist resources and the candidate’s vocation prospects,” the judges said. The seat cannot countenance specified actions, it said.
The petitioner Palla Nishanth studied successful Andhra Pradesh from archetypal modular to sixth modular successful Andhra Pradesh. He got selected for the station of AEE but the Commission held that helium was not a section campaigner since helium did not survey successful immoderate multi-zone successful Telangana for 4 consecutive world years ending with seventh standard. This was the ground to dainty a idiosyncratic arsenic section campaigner for immoderate multi-zone successful Telangana.
He approached the HC and the azygous justice passed an bid treating him arsenic section candidate. The TGPSC filed the entreaty questioning the azygous justice order. The part seat observed that Commission cannot accidental lone seventh standards was the benchmark for each station nary substance what the minimum qualifying introspection was prescribed for a post.
The Commission indispensable recognize the value of the regularisation that a idiosyncratic had to beryllium treated arsenic section campaigner if helium oregon she studied for 4 continuous world years ending with the twelvemonth successful which the campaigner appeared for that qualifying examination, the seat said.

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