Tamil Nadu: The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Thursday ordered the Tamil Nadu Uniformed Services Recruitment Board (TNUSRB) to respond to a petition seeking the cancellation of the police Sub-Inspector (SI) recruitment process and the conduct of a fresh examination.
The petition was filed in the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court by Gurusamy and Anandaraja from Tenkasi.
They stated in their petition:
The examination for the posts of Police Sub-Inspector was held on December 21 last year. Section ‘B’ of the syllabus did not contain any questions in Tamil, as specified in the syllabus. Instead, 10 additional questions were asked from the Psychology section. This is wrong.
Therefore, they demanded that the police Sub-Inspector recruitment process be temporarily halted, and that the current recruitment be cancelled and a new examination be conducted.
The petition came up for hearing before Justice P. Pugazhendi of the High Court on Thursday.
At that time, the petitioners’ lawyer argued:
The examination syllabus stated that 10 questions would be asked from Tamil. However, no questions were asked from Tamil. The examination results were released without specifying the qualifying score (cut-off). This is wrong, he said.
The lawyers appearing for the government argued:
The results that were released have been withdrawn due to a technical error. The results will be published soon along with the qualifying marks, they said.
Following this, Justice Pugazhendi issued the following order:
The Tamil Nadu Uniformed Services Recruitment Board should file a detailed response on this issue. The judge adjourned the hearing of the case until the 12th of this month.
