More than a thousand jobs in Telangana’s Group-II Services remain secure for now, thanks to an interim stay granted by the Telangana High Court. The division bench intervened on Thursday to halt a single judge’s order that had nullified the 2019 selection list for 1,032 vacancies. The appeal was lodged by two successful candidates, now deputy tehsildars, who argued that quashing appointments finalized four years ago was fundamentally unfair. The court agreed, also considering that the initial lawsuit did not name all affected appointees. The appellants asserted that the TGPSC had followed established guidelines during the recruitment and that the single judge had not adequately addressed crucial prior legal decisions. Consequently, the court has directed all concerned parties to present their formal responses before the case is heard on its merits in six weeks. This temporary reprieve comes as the TGPSC faces scrutiny over alleged OMR sheet manipulations, which formed the basis of the original petition seeking to re-evaluate the selection process and potentially reassign positions.
