The Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC) to cancel the provisional selection list it published on February 16 for the recruitment of 245 Civil Judges, and come up with a revised list within two weeks.
A Division Bench of Justices S.M. Subramaniam and K. Rajasekar agreed with advocate Balan Haridas, and Senior Counsel G. Sankaran and Dakshayani Reddy that the TNPSC had not properly followed the rule of reservation while drawing the provisional list.
Allowing a batch of writ petitions filed by nine aspirants to the post of Civil Judge, the judges pointed out that the TNPSC had issued a notification on June 1, 2023, inviting applications for recruiting 245 Civil Judges, which included 92 “carried forward” vacancies.
