High Court for putting exam results of SI recruitment in abeyance

“Board should have provided option for physical submission of forms”

May 24, 2015 12:00 am | Updated 05:34 am IST - CHENNAI:

During the recruitment for the posts of Sub Inspectors of Police, for which the written examination was held on Saturday, the Tamil Nadu Uniformed Services Recruitment Board (TNUSRB) should have given an option for physical submission of application forms, as many of the applicants where from the interior parts of the State, the Madras High Court has observed.

Passing interim orders on a batch of petitions by candidates, who moved the High Court after their applications were rejected, Justice R. Mahadevan said, “The petitioners are from many interior parts of the State. The respondents cannot expect them to know the nuances of equipment used for scanning the documents. They can upload the forms and documents only with the available facilities.

Applications rejected

The applications were accepted only online. Several applications were rejected and applicants moved the High Court at the eleventh hour.

The judge on Thursday directed officials to allow several petitioners to appear for the exam on Saturday, whose applications were rejected on the ground that the documents uploaded by them online were not clear.

“Though computerisation and online procedures would facilitate quick processing and easy access to the documents which can be stored permanently, they come with many disadvantages,” the judge said, observing that the court found that the reasons formulated to reject the applications were “arbitrary and vague”.

The results shall not be published and shall be kept in abeyance till the finalisation of the eligibility of the petitioners and the results shall also be subject to the outcome of these petitions, the judge said and posted them after three weeks.

“Tamil Nadu Uniformed Services Recruitment Board should have provided option for physical submission of forms”

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