Hyderabad: A division bench comprising Justice K.C. Bhanu and Justice Anis on Thursday reserved orders on petitions by the Telangana state government and six IAS officers challenging the decision of the Hyderabad bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal in quashing of selection process to confer IAS to eligible state level officers for the year 2013.
The tribunal on October 1, 2014, granted an order quashing the selection process of the state government to confer IAS to eligible state level officers for the year 2013 and directed the government to take up the process afresh in accordance with law.
The tribunal also directed the state government to pay a compensation of Rs 25,000 to each of the aggrieved candidates whose candidatures were illegally ignored by it.
Satyanarayana, C. Sreedhar, Md Imtiyaz, S. Arvinder Singh, P. Koteswara Rao and M. Prashanti and the government challenged the tribunal order contending that the tribunal has erred in appreciating the process adopted by the government as per the service rules and norms.
