Quashing an order of the State Administrative Tribunal (SAT) on the Odisha Civil Service (OCS) 2011 examination, the Orissa High Court in a significant ruling on Friday referred the matter to the Tribunal for fresh adjudication by a Division Bench. The HC also asked the Tribunal to dispose of the matter within three months.
The SAT on August 26 last year had quashed the results of the OCS 2011 preliminary examination results, and had directed the Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) to publish fresh results after getting rid of the faulty grace marks awarded to some aspirants.
Since the main exams were scheduled to begin on September 1, the OPSC had approached the High Court challenging the SAT order.
The HC in an interim direction had stayed the Tribunal order and had allowed the OPSC to go ahead with the main exams as per the schedule.
Delivering its final verdict on OPSC petition, the HC Bench of Justices Pradeep K. Mohanty and Biswajit Mohanty also directed the OPSC to provide the list of all successful students who had qualified in the preliminary examination so that they can be made respondents when the matter is freshly adjudicated by the Tribunal.
Following a lot of hiccups, the OPSC had conducted the OCS 2011 preliminary examinations in January 2014 after the advertisement was made in October 2011 to fill up vacancies created in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.
From over 50,000 aspirants, at least 5,823 had qualified in the preliminary examination and a little over 3,000 appeared in the main examinations, which were held last September.
State Administrative Tribunal on August 26 last year had quashed the results of the OCS 2011 preliminary examination results
