High Court Relief for Staff Selection Commission Aspirants

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad High Court on Saturday granted respite to candidates who have appeared for the combined graduate level examination-2014 conducted by the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) on April 12, 2015. The Court directed the SSC to undertake evaluation of the answer sheets of all candidates who might have made an error in not thickening or blackening the appropriate circles and accordingly declare their results at the earliest.

A division bench comprising Justice Nooty Ramamohana Rao and Justice Anis, while dismissing a petition by the SSC against CAT orders, ruled that failure on the part of a few candidates to thicken a couple of circles in the answersheet cannot be a reason for rejecting evaluation of their answer sheets. The Tribunal had in July 2015 allowed a plea by G. Raja Surya Praveen seeking a declaration of non-evaluation of answer script by the SSC as bad in law. The SSC had reasoned that the candidate had failed to shade / blacken the test form number in the answer sheet.

SSC conducts this test every year and the answer sheets are evaluated through computers. But the candidates' information sheets have to be filled separately, which includes roll number, hall ticket number and test form number by darkening or thickening appropriate circles given in the sheets.