Over the last month and a half, the Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) has witnessed sparring between some of its members and the Secretary over the recruitment of head of legal cell (HLC) resulting in a stalemate. As a result, several employment notifications, including that of the gazetted probationers that thousands eagerly await, have been held up.
The matter has reached a point where the commission’s Secretary K.S. Latha Kumari has written to the government on January 25 to take steps under Article 317 of the Constitution to remove KPSC Chairman Shivashankarappa S. Sahukar, and members Vijayakumar D. Kuchanure, M.B. Heggannanavar, B.V. Geetha and Musthafa Hussain Syed Azeez. On the other, the Chairman on February 1 has written to the government to take disciplinary action against Ms. Latha Kumari, and reject nine lists of selected candidates for posts in various departments that have been “illegally published.”
