Justice K. Sarath of the Telangana High Court on Thursday issued notices to the State government in a batch of writ petitions seeking a direction to stay the conduct of Group-I preliminary examination on June 11.
The judge, after hearing three writ petitions filed by different persons, instructed the State government and the Telangana State Public Service Commission to file counter-affidavits in the matter by Monday. The petitioners contended that it was unfair on the part of the TSPSC to go ahead with conduct of the preliminary exam even as the police were continuing the investigation into the leak of question paper. They maintained that some employees connected to the TSPSC and conduct of the exam were already apprehended by the police.
In this backdrop, holding of the exam by the same TSPSC was not correct. They sought a direction to declare conduct of the exam on June 11 illegal and arbitrary. The TSPSC’s decision to hold the exam without ascertaining how many persons were actually involved in leak of Group-I preliminary exam paper.
