Justice Nagesh Bheemapaka of Telangana High Court on Tuesday (November 18, 2025) set aside the selection of 1,032 candidates for Group-II services in 13 categories made by the Telangana State Public Service Commission in 2019.
Pronouncing verdict in a batch of writ petitions filed by some candidates who appeared for the recruitment test for which notifications were issued in 2015 and 2016, the judge directed the TGPSC to re-evaluate the answer sheets of the candidates and finalise the selection. The final results should be in accordance with the directions issued by the division bench of the HC in a writ appeal 1525 of 2018 and as per the recommendations of the Technical Committee issued in 2017.
The Commission should issue appointment orders to the eligible candidates within eight weeks of receiving copy of the verdict, the judge said. The bench also directed the TGPSC to ‘ensure henceforth that evaluation of OMR sheets in all the recruitments was conducted in strict conformity with the notified instructions. The judge made it clear that adequate transparency measures, including physical verification, videography and preservation of records were followed in future to check recurrence of such irregularities.
