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Cuttack, Jan 16: The Orissa High Court Friday quashed an order of the State Administrative Tribunal (SAT) on the 2011 Orissa Civil Service (OCS) examination and referred back the matter to the tribunal for fresh adjudication by a division bench.
The high court also asked the tribunal to dispose of the matter preferably within three months.
The SAT August 26 last year had quashed the results of the OCS 2011 preliminary examination and directed the Orissa Public Service Commission (OPSC) to publish fresh results after getting rid of faulty grace marks awarded to certain aspirants.
As the main exams were scheduled to begin from September 1, OPSC had approached the high court challenging the SAT order. The high court in an interim direction had stayed the operation of tribunal order and had allowed OPSC to go ahead with the main exams according to schedule.
A court bench of justices Pradeep K Mohanty and Biswajit Mohanty Friday also directed the commission to provide the list of all successful students who qualified in the preliminary examination so that they could be made respondents when the matter is freshly adjudicated by the tribunal.
The court also expressed displeasure over the irregularities in holding the state civil service examinations and directed the Orissa government to ensure that the examinations to recruit administrative officers are held regularly to fill up vacancies arising every year.
OPSC had conducted the OCS-2011 preliminary examinations in January 2014 after the advertisement was made in October 2011 to fill up vacancies created in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.
At least 5,823 aspirants had qualified in the preliminary examination and a little over 3,000 appeared for the main examinations held last September.
