TRB scam: HC upholds govt’s decision to cancel examination
‘No Leniency For Corrupt Activities’
Sureshkumar.K@timesgroup.com
Chennai: 13.05.2018
The Madras high court upheld a government decision to scrap the 2017 recruitment exam conducted by Teachers Recruitment Board (TRB) for 1,058 posts of lecturers in government polytechnics in view of large scale malpractice in selection process.
Justice S M Subramaniam, on his trademark hard-hitting order, said the fast development of the nation had been paralysed by corrupt activities in public services.
After perusing a report submitted by the government, Subramaniam said: “It is pertinent to note that several money transactions were found, and the outsourcing company has tampered with the hard disks and original OMR sheets. Thus, it is very difficult to segregate the tainted from the nontainted.”
It is found that even before the commencement of the examination, there were conspiracies to commit such malpractice, Subramaniam added.
“Constitutional courts across the country, time and again emphasised that there cannot be any leniency or misplaced sympathy in respect of the corrupt activities. In the event of showing any such misplaced sympathy in such cases, the same will cause not only larger implications, the young minds of this great nation will result in frustration. Thus, in the event of identifying certain large scale corrupt activities in the process of selection, then the courts have no option, but to take a decision that fresh selection alone will be the best solution," the judge said.
The issue pertains to a batch of petitions moved by persons who appeared for the exam seeking direction to the government not to cancel the entire exam, but to segregate, only the candidates who are found to be involved in the malpractices. On February 22, the Madurai bench while partly allowing a batch of similar petitions set aside the government’s decision to cancel the entire exam and ordered the segregation.
When the present batch of petitions came up for hearing, the additional advocate general submitted that the government could not provide a clear picture of the magnitude of the scam before the Madurai bench since the inquiry was then in the preliminary stage. However, as of now, there has been considerable progress and police officials have also given inputs in respect of the corrupt activities. Thus, we are filing a confidential report in respect of the preliminary investigations done by the authorities, the additional advocate general said.
‘No Leniency For Corrupt Activities’
Sureshkumar.K@timesgroup.com
Chennai: 13.05.2018
The Madras high court upheld a government decision to scrap the 2017 recruitment exam conducted by Teachers Recruitment Board (TRB) for 1,058 posts of lecturers in government polytechnics in view of large scale malpractice in selection process.
Justice S M Subramaniam, on his trademark hard-hitting order, said the fast development of the nation had been paralysed by corrupt activities in public services.
After perusing a report submitted by the government, Subramaniam said: “It is pertinent to note that several money transactions were found, and the outsourcing company has tampered with the hard disks and original OMR sheets. Thus, it is very difficult to segregate the tainted from the nontainted.”
It is found that even before the commencement of the examination, there were conspiracies to commit such malpractice, Subramaniam added.
“Constitutional courts across the country, time and again emphasised that there cannot be any leniency or misplaced sympathy in respect of the corrupt activities. In the event of showing any such misplaced sympathy in such cases, the same will cause not only larger implications, the young minds of this great nation will result in frustration. Thus, in the event of identifying certain large scale corrupt activities in the process of selection, then the courts have no option, but to take a decision that fresh selection alone will be the best solution," the judge said.
The issue pertains to a batch of petitions moved by persons who appeared for the exam seeking direction to the government not to cancel the entire exam, but to segregate, only the candidates who are found to be involved in the malpractices. On February 22, the Madurai bench while partly allowing a batch of similar petitions set aside the government’s decision to cancel the entire exam and ordered the segregation.
When the present batch of petitions came up for hearing, the additional advocate general submitted that the government could not provide a clear picture of the magnitude of the scam before the Madurai bench since the inquiry was then in the preliminary stage. However, as of now, there has been considerable progress and police officials have also given inputs in respect of the corrupt activities. Thus, we are filing a confidential report in respect of the preliminary investigations done by the authorities, the additional advocate general said.
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