Karnataka HC sets aside selection lists of teachers for illegally altering norms mid-recruitment process
The Karnataka High Court has quashed teacher recruitment lists for the Hyderabad-Karnataka region due to the state government's unlawful alteration of selection criteria mid-process. The court has ordered a fresh selection process to be conducted based on the original norms.
Why it matters
This ruling protects the integrity of public recruitment processes and ensures that constitutional reservation benefits are not arbitrarily diluted by administrative changes.
The High Court of Karnataka has quashed the provisional and final selection lists for Graduate Primary Teacher (GPT) posts for Kalaburagi and Bidar districts in the Hyderabad-Karnataka (H-K) region, holding that the State Government unlawfully altered the selection criteria after the recruitment process commenced.
The court directed the authorities to conduct the selection afresh by disregarding the criteria introduced midway through the selection process.
A division bench comprising Justice R. Devdas and Justice Brungesh M. passed the order while allowing petitions filed by Nagappa and others, aspirants for the posts, and setting aside the order of the Karnataka State Administrative Tribunal, which had refused to interfere with the selection process.
The petitioners, most of them from outside the Hyderabad-Karnataka region, had applied for the 20% non-local cadre posts in Kalaburagi and Bidar districts.
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