The Telangana High Court on Wednesday issued notice to the State government in a PIL petition seeking direction for investigation by CBI into the alleged leak of question papers of Group-I and Assistant Engineer exams conducted by the Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC)
A bench of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice T. Vinod Kumar, after overruling the objections raised by the HC Registry over treating the matter as PIL, directed the government to file counter -ffidavits within three weeks. The bench directed S. Sharath Kumar, counsel for petitioner Bakka Judson, to implead sixth respondent A.R. Srinivas, presently Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Director and previously Hyderabad Police Additional Commissioner (Crimes) and in-charge of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) that probed Group-I question paper leak case, in the plea in his personal capacity.
On August 4, Justice P. Madhavi Devi of the HC had reserved orders in a batch of writ petitions questioning re-conduct of the Group-I preliminary examination and seeking direction for its cancellation. Extensive arguments were presented by counsel of the petitioners and Advocate-General B.S. Prasad with the former pointing out lack of security precautions in re-conducting the exam and the latter stating that it was held in a fool-proof manner.
