TNPSC told to hold counselling for rejected JA, VAO applicants tomorrow
Coming to the rescue of aspirants for Junior Assistants and Village Administrative Officers posts whose applications were rejected by Tamil Nadu Public Service (TNPSC) owing to a mistake committed either in uploading a wrong document or filling up some wrong particulars, the Madras High Court has directed the TNPSC to hold counselling for those candidates on Saturday as the mistakes do not touch upon the qualification and eligibility of the petitioners to participate in the selection.
By : migrator
Update: 2020-02-27 21:29 GMT
Chennai
Passing orders on a batch of writ petitions, Justice N Anand Venkatesh, said, “This Court is prima facie satisfied that the reasons assigned by the TNPSC for rejecting the candidature are clearly rectifiable and condonable and it should not result in an outright rejection of the candidature.”
“In some of the cases, this Court finds that the concerned candidates have obtained very high marks in the written test and they have been deprived from participation in the further selection process for small mistakes that has happened in the uploading of documents,” the judge said.
Also, noting that it is brought to the notice that the counselling had already started on February 19 and that this Court had already allowed two of the petitioners to participate in the counselling on February 22, Justice Anand Venkatesh said, “In order to ensure that the interest of the petitioners is safeguarded, if they ultimately succeed in the writ petitions, it is necessary that they are allowed to participate in the counselling.”
However, he held that it goes without saying that the same will be subject to the result of the writ petition. However, Justice Anand Venkatesh held that if any of the petitioner does not participate on February 29, they will not be allowed to participate in the counselling in any of the future dates. Further hearing is on March 9.
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