Group-I recruitment: A.P. HC gives Chief Secretary 24 hours to comply with order
The Hindu
A.P. High Court orders Chief Secretary to comply with Group-I recruitment directives within 24 hours or face contempt proceedings.
VIJAYAWADA
Censuring Chief Secretary K. Vijayanand for not implementing its order related to APPSC Group-I examinations, dated February 11, the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Wednesday directed him to ensure compliance by February 26 morning or face contempt proceedings.
Upon being directed on February 24 to explain his wilful disobedience, Mr. Vijayanand appeared before the court on Thursday. He was supposed to submit a compliance report within a week of the said order.
Taking note of the facts during Wednesday’s hearing, a Division Bench comprising Justices Battu Devanand and A. Hari Haranadha Sarma expressed strong disapproval of what it called a careless attitude of Mr. Vijayanand in not appointing 326 candidates who were selected in Group-I main examinations conducted by the APPSC in December 2020, in non-focal posts.
The judges said that there were no excuses, including any perceived ambiguity on the rule position with regard to the focal and non-focal posts, for not implementing its order as the issue was well settled through a G.O. in 1966.
The Bench told Advocate General Dammalapati Srinivas that the court would brook no further delay and instructed him that the order dated February 11 be carried out forthwith and a compliance report filed by 10.30 a.m. of February 26, while noting that the CS was ill-advised.
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