P SUNAND Vs. Y VENKATARAMI REDDY

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS public interest litigation originates from an application, sent by post to the Chief Justice of this Court, alleging community bias, against the Chairman, Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission (for short Chairman and Commission respectively) in respect of interview held by the Commission for recruitment to Group-I and Group-II, in the year 2006.

(2.) BELIEVING the information given in the application by the petitioner, it came to be registered as a "Taken up Public Interest Litigation". Thereafter, the applicant engaged a counsel and filed an affidavit, apparently in furtherance of an endeavour to expand the contours of litigation, to the extent of registration of a crime of disproportionate assets, against the Chairman, with a prayer for investigation thereof, by the Central Bureau of Intelligence (hereinafter CBI), on the allegation of unfair selection, alleged by someone in a program, displayed by a Television Channel but without any details and without any evidence, much less tenable in law and there being absolutely no evidence, admissible in law, supporting the allegation, it would be both impermissible and unjust in law to believe the allegation leveled in a program telecast by a Television channel.

(3.) WE have minutely gone through the application as also the subsequent affidavit, but we find no mention about petitioner's appearance in the examination as a candidate. There is also no mention in the application and affidavit that Backward Class, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes category candidates too were awarded 90% marks. Thus, suppression of material facts is manifest.