Patna: The Patna High Court on Monday directed the Bihar Public Service Commission to revise the results of the preliminary test conducted for recruitment in 553 POS officer assistant officers in the House Department.
Chakadhari Chakradhari bench Sharan Singh simultaneously ordered the Commission to invite a candidate ten times the number of posts in an electric exam that has not been carried out.
The court also ordered the Commission to get rid of the minimum qualification criteria to allow candidates to appear in written electricity checks.
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These criteria were not mentioned in advertisements for the APO recruitment process published on February 6 last year.
The minimum qualification criteria were guided by the resolution of the General Administration Department which was ratified in 2007.
The court has directed commissions not to request the settlement rules in this recruitment process.
The high court order has relieved for a large number of legal practitioners like now, more candidates will get the opportunity to write an electric exam which was previously rejected by the Commission.
Initial examination for APO recruitment was held on February 7 this year.
The results were stated on April 27.
The Commission has issued clarification on April 28 which mentions the minimum qualification.
Overall 3995 candidates were found to be eligible by the Commission to emerge for major written checks based on minimum qualification marks but after a high court order, now it must invite more than 5500 aspirants.
Nearly in one hour after revising the results of PT, the Commission issued a notification that announced that he had postponed the main written test for the APO recruitment process scheduled to take place in different centers in Patna from August 24 to August 27 to August 27.
The bench was hearing the batch of writing petition submitted by Utpal Kant, Bagesh Kumar Srivastava, Dilshad Ahamad, and 31 others.
The applicant was represented by Counsel Arjun Prasad Singh, Rupesh Kumar, and Vikash Kumar Pankaj.
The court allows the prayers of the applicant in a limited way.
They moved to a high court urging that BPSC was directed to invite candidates ten times the number of empty seats as mentioned in the ad.
They also urge to remove the minimum qualification criteria because there is nothing mentioned about them in advertising and no modified ads are published for it.
Some candidates did not fall in the feasibility criteria for writing electricity checks because of the minimum qualification criteria introduced after clarification.
Advocacy General Lalit Kishore along with Sanjay Pandey, emerging for the Commission, has argued that the recruitment agency has completed several previous recruitment processes in accordance with the minimum qualifying criteria guided by GAD resolution where it mentioned effectively in all competitive countries of the exam.
They have also proposed that even in previous recruitment, criteria are not published in advertisements.
However, the court remained dissatisfied and provided the desired assistance to the applicants only because nothing was mentioned about the minimum qualification criteria in the commission ad where he invited the application.