The Telangana High Court on Thursday dismissed a writ appeal filed by Telangana State Public Service Commission challenging a single Judge order to cancel the Group-I preliminary examination conducted on June 11.
A Bench of Justices Abhinand Kumar Shavili and Anil Kumar Jukanti passed the order after hearing the appeal petition consecutively for the past two days. The Bench noted that the commission ought to have been more cautious in convening the exam as the first one held in 2022 was cancelled over allegations of question paper leakage.
Finding fault with the commission over not issuing an addendum informing the candidates that the biometric screening system was being done away with, the Bench recalled that earlier the commission had done so when the exam was re-conducted. The Bench observed that dispensing with the biometric screening had raised suspicions of possible impersonation among some of the candidates.
