Patna high court clears decks for appointment of 2k SIs and sergeants

Patna: The Patna high court on Tuesday cleared decks for appointment of 2,446 sub-inspectors (SIs) and sergeants by dismissing the writ petitions foiled against the procedure. A single bench of Justice P B Bajanthri dismissed the analogous writ petitions filed by Sudhir Kumar Gupta and 200 others who had challenged the final selection list on the ground of disparity in the minimum cut off in the merit scores.
On December 1 last year, the high court had directed the respondents concerned not to issue the appointment orders until next hearing in the matter if the same had not been issued by that time. The selected candidates had to wait for their appointment letters due to the stay order issued by the court.
The recruiting agency, Bihar Police Subordinate Service Commission (BPSSC), countered the allegations of the petitioners by laying bare the mechanism of category-wise merit-marking pattern. Finding force in the arguments of the respondents, the court dismissed the writ petitions. The BPSSC was represented in the court by advocate general Lalit Kishore and advocates Sanjay Pandey and Kunal Tiwari.
The selected candidates may get a sigh of relief with automatic annulment of the earlier stay order on appointments.