Teachers’ Recruitment Board scam: Varying verdicts take case to division bench

CHENNAI: Aggrieved over conflicting judgments of the Madras high court – one quashing the decision of the

Teachers’ Recruitment Board

(TRB) to cancel the entire recruitment process to fill 1,058 vacancies in government polytechnics in view of alleged irregularities and the other upholding the decision to scrap the process partially – a group of candidates who have cleared the exam has approached the high court.

Of the two judgments, the petitioners wanted the court to set aside the order passed by a single judge dated April 11 upholding the decision of the government to cancel the entire recruitment process and conduct the process afresh.

The primary contention of the petitioners is that tainted candidates could be easily segregated from the selection process as the malpractice had happened only after the examination process was over and probably when the OMR sheets were in the possession of private outsourced agency.

“Such candidates were exposed once the image copy of the OMR sheets was uploaded on TRB’s website on December 11, 2017. Marks of only 196 candidates were found to be much less than the marks printed in the marksheet,” the petitioners said. Claiming that the decision of the government to cancel the entire recruitment process was arbitrary, the petitioners said this would result in undue delay and would cause grave hardship to selected candidates. They further claimed that some of the selected candidates have even resigned from their current jobs either to appear in the exam or after the selection list for certificate verification was released.

The appeal is likely to be taken up for hearing by the

division bench

headed by Justice Huluvadi G Ramesh in the coming week.


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