PSC Rejection Of Faulty Application Upheld

Hyderabad: Justice K. Sharath of the Telangana High Court ruled that a candidate is bound to fill in an application form for a public post strictly in accordance with the specified rules and laxity would cost them a post. The judge consequentially junked a writ plea filed by Manem Jhansi. She had challenged the action of the Public Service Commission for not considering her case under the category of economically weaker sections (EWS) while effecting selections to Group I services based on a notification issued in September 2025. The notification was issued after the High Court earlier set aside an earlier notification for leakage of the question paper. The crux of the present controversy was that the petitioner had not filed her income certificate for the relevant period and contended that she had filed her EWS status in the earlier round. PSC counsel P.S. Raja Shekar pointed out that the candidate had failed to upload her EWS certificate in consonance with the notification for the posts in question. Justice Sharath while dismissing the writ petition pointed out that the certificate for financial year 2022-23 issued by the tahsildar in 2025 fell foul of the requirement under law and that the PSC acted within its powers and in accordance with law while rejecting her case under the stated category.

Man gets bail in suicide abetment case

The Telangana High Court granted bail to a man accused of abetting the suicide of a woman who allegedly died after being deceived into a live-in relationship on the promise of marriage. The judge was hearing a criminal petition filed by Kurakula Narsimha Rao, arrayed as accused in the case registered with the Jagadgirigutta police of the Cyberabad commissionerate. According to the prosecution, the deceased was allegedly induced into a live-in relationship by the petitioner despite his existing marriage, on the assurance that he would marry her. It was alleged that the petitioner later refused to accept her as his wife and, along with another accused, subjected her to harassment and threats, due to which she became depressed and died allegedly by suicide. Counsel for the petitioner contended that the accused was innocent, had voluntarily surrendered before the trial court on March 5 and remained in judicial custody for over two months. It was argued that no material existed to attract the offence of abetment of suicide and that the petitioner was willing to cooperate with the investigation. The additional public prosecutor opposed the plea, contending that the allegations were grave in nature and that investigation was pending. The court observed that apart from the statement of the complainant, no suicide note or other material was available to prima facie establish abetment by the petitioner. Taking note of the period of incarceration, the stage of investigation, and the nature of allegations, the court granted bail subject to conditions.

Khammam Municipal Corpn. to reconsider case of Pump Operators

The Telangana High Court reiterated the rights of employees working for decades to be considered for regularisation of services. The court set aside an order of the Khammam Municipal Corporation that rejected in May 2023 the case of about 11 pump operators for regularisation. P. Ramesh and ten others were before the court questioning the proceedings as being discriminatory . They sought parity with similarly placed persons. The impugned order was on the ground that they were not similarly situated and that that they were not entitled to regularisation. The arguments of counsel Madiraju Srinivas Rao that the petitioners suffered hostile discrimination and were entitled to the benefits found favour with Justice S. Nanda who remitted the matter to the commissioner of the the Khammam Municipal Corporation to reconsider the claims. The petitioners who had put in two decades of service pressed for their cases for regularisation and state that it was the duty of the authorities to examine their cases in view of their long service as pump operators and leakage workers. Justice Nanda reasoned that when a particular set of employees is given relief by the court, all other identically situated persons need to be treated alike by extending that benefit. Not doing so would amount to discrimination and would be violative of Article 14 of the constitution. The court gave the civic body commissioner four weeks to consider the case.