Chennai:
The Tamil Nadu government informed the Madras High Court that it has not delegated the power to appoint 185 civil judges in the state to anyone and that it alone is vested with powers to appoint them.
In a common counter affidavit to a batch of petitions relating to recruitment of the judges, Home Department Deputy Secretary K Ezhilarasu said the government had issued an order in line with the court's January 12 judgement and the Tamil Nadu State Judicial Service (Cadre and Recruitment) Rules 2007 had been relaxed as a one-time measure.
The Government Order (GO) was issued after considering the huge pendency of cases in lower courts and in public interest.
Therefore, the government, the officer said, had accepted the court's suggestion to undertake the recruitment as a one time measure after consulting the state Public Service Commission and issued the order.
The relaxation of rule was to enable the government issue advertisement/notification inviting applications and the High Court to carry out all other process of recruitment.
Accordingly, the advertisement calling for applications was published in a Tamil and an English daily on January 21.
Stating that the recruitment process had commenced, the counter said 4,154 applications had been received as on February 15 and they would be handed over to the High Court immediately.
The last date for receipt of applications is February 20.
After the written test and interview, once the list of eligible candidates is forwarded to the government, it would certainly ensure that the rule of reservation is followed scrupulously, the counter said.
In a common counter affidavit to a batch of petitions relating to recruitment of the judges, Home Department Deputy Secretary K Ezhilarasu said the government had issued an order in line with the court's January 12 judgement and the Tamil Nadu State Judicial Service (Cadre and Recruitment) Rules 2007 had been relaxed as a one-time measure.
The Government Order (GO) was issued after considering the huge pendency of cases in lower courts and in public interest.
Therefore, the government, the officer said, had accepted the court's suggestion to undertake the recruitment as a one time measure after consulting the state Public Service Commission and issued the order.
The relaxation of rule was to enable the government issue advertisement/notification inviting applications and the High Court to carry out all other process of recruitment.
Accordingly, the advertisement calling for applications was published in a Tamil and an English daily on January 21.
Stating that the recruitment process had commenced, the counter said 4,154 applications had been received as on February 15 and they would be handed over to the High Court immediately.
The last date for receipt of applications is February 20.
After the written test and interview, once the list of eligible candidates is forwarded to the government, it would certainly ensure that the rule of reservation is followed scrupulously, the counter said.
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