HC nod for Registrar General to continue with selection

The Madras High Court today permitted the Registrar General to continue with the selection process for the posts of sanitary workers for the court.
The bench, comprising Justice M. Sathyanarayanan and Justice N. Seshasahee, constituted specially to hear the case, was passing interim orders on a petition filed by an advocate.
The petition stated that the advertisement was not published in vernacular language and hence it was in violation of a Supreme Court order.
The bench said "In the light of the facts and circumstances of the case, this court permits the Registrar General of Madras High court to continue the selection process but the appointment and selection of the candidates for the posts of scavengers and sanitary workers is subject to the result of writ petition."

With a view to filling 68 posts of sweepers and 59 posts of sanitary workers in the High Court, the court had requested the state director of information and public relations to publish the notification dated July 14 in all the editions of two dailies, one Tamil newspaper and another English, in Tamil Nadu and the Union Territory of Puducherry.
Accordingly it was published in all the editions of the two dailies throughout Tamil Nadu.

The petitioner contended that the above notification was not issued in the vernacular language and hence it is violative of a supreme court direction.
The Registrar General in his counter affidavit said the petitioner "misread and misinterpreted" the apex court judgment.

The apex court judgment made it clear that the notification should be given in two vernacular newspapers and "the word vernacular used in the judgment is only the language of the newspaper in which the advertisements ought to be carried out and not the very language in which notification has to be issued."
Therefore the allegation that the advertisement is contrary to the law laid down by Supreme Court is far from truth, the counter said.
A total of 2569 hall tickets have been issued for the examinations to be held on October 8 to candidates who have applied for the above posts.

The minimum educational qualification for the posts was fixed as eighth standard pass.