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High Court calls for affidavit from Telangana govt
The High Court at Hyderabad directed the Telangana State government to file counter affidavit in the case filed by DSC-1998 candidates seeking CBI investigation into alleged fraudulent appointments made by Warangal District Selection Committee (WDSC) in teachers’ recruitment.
​Hyderabad: The High Court at Hyderabad directed the Telangana State government to file counter affidavit in the case filed by DSC-1998 candidates seeking CBI investigation into alleged fraudulent appointments made by Warangal District Selection Committee (WDSC) in teachers’ recruitment.
Justice A Rajashekar Reddy gave this direction on Thursday while hearing a Writ petition filed by K Venu Goud and four others from Warangal district complaining of large scale irregularities and fraud in the selections to the Secondary Grade Teacher (SGT) posts made under DSC-1998 and seeking CBI investigation into it.
The petitioners annexed the Inquiry Report submitted jointly by the Joint Collector and District Educational Officer of Warangal district to the District Collector in 2014 that clearly brought out the fraud perpetrated. It was stated in the report that there were at least five lists pertaining to the selections with varying figures of candidates selected.
It was also pointed out that a list of 65 candidates without any approval of the D EO or the Chairman of DSC was found and all those 65 candidates were appointed as teachers. One candidate who got 0 marks in written exam was called for interview and she was selected as a teacher.
A high-level committee headed by senior IAS officer I V Subba Rao, appointed by the then Andhra Pradesh government, had also clearly stated that irregularities occurred in the DSC. Despite such findings, no action has been taken in this regard, claimed the petitioners.
The counsel for the petitioners informed the judge that many candidates who got less marks were illegally appointed as teachers due to this fraud. He cited the Vyapam recruitment scam in Madhya Pradesh in which after the Supreme Court ordered CBI investigation, the contours of the scam became clear and the guilty were being punished. On similar lines, there is need for a CBI investigation into DSC-1998 scam to bring out the large scale frauds and punish the guilty and do justice to deserving candidates like the petitioners who were left out.
The Government Pleader informed the judge that since other writ petitions relating to this issue were pending before the court, this petition may also be tagged along with them. The judge pointed out that the present writ is seeking CBI probe and was different from the pending writs. He adjourned the case by two weeks and directed the Respondents to file counter affidavit.
