GPSC PROPOSES HIGH COURT DISPOSES?
Thefate of thirteen candidates recommended by Goa Public Service Commission (GPSC)hangs in balance. A writ petition WP/1033/2015 is due to come up for hearing onMonday, January 11. As a matter of statutory practice GPSC conducts exams andrecommends candidates for various posts to the Personnel department of the GoaGovernment. Thepetitioner Nilesh Bhagwant Naik has approached the high court seeking justiceon technical grounds, praying that the interviews should be re-conducted asthey were not video graphed under rule 6 of the Goa Civil Service (10thAmendment) 2015. Thepetitioner is also one amongst those who have answered the exam and appearedfor the interview held in October 2015, but failed to get recommended to thepost of Junior Scale Officer of Goa Civil Service. Accordingto most of the candidates awaiting their appointments there appears to be malafide intentions on part of the petitioner. They claim that this objectionshould have been raised at the time of interviews being conducted and not afterthe GPSC results being declared and approval of the State Cabinet to completethe process of appointments was taken. Theircontention is that the petitioner by fraudulent misrepresentation obtains toentail the judiciary with an aim to jeopardize and rescind the process ofappointments and to re-conduct interviews with the sole motive to ensure hisselection in the recommendation list of GPSC by intimidating and coercing theState Government. Ona previous occasion in 2012, in a similar matter he had knocked the doors of thejudiciary vide a writ petition WP/616/2012 filed by him and which wassubsequently disposed in favour of the state government. The petitioner Nilesh Bhagwant Naik inthe past has been charged with criminal conspiracy for adopting to manipulaterecords into the selection process for the post of Junior Scale Officers in GoaCivil Service. Earlier, the Anti-Corruption Branch of the vigilance department hadregistered a FIR against the above petitioner and others. Presently,the state administration is hampered as most of the officers are burdened withAdditional Charge of various departments. Unlike the Maharashtra Public ServiceCommission (MPSC), GPSC does not conduct yearly exams. CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS: Thefirst Civil Services examination for direct recruitment was conducted in 1997. Thisbatch of officers was appointed in 1998. Amongst these officers are Swapnil Naik,Sandip Jacques and Arun Dessai. Aftera span of six years in 2003 exam was conducted and appointments were done in2004 Nikhil Desai, Jayant Tari, Micheal D’Souza, Dattaram Sardessai, Prasanna Acharyawere amongst the officers. In 2011 GPSC conducted writtenexamination and oral interviews were held in 2012. The anti-corruption branchof the vigilance department registered a first information report againstformer chairman of Goa public service commission (GPSC) Prakash N Dessai andothers in the alleged recruitment scam of junior scale officer of GPSC. Acomplaint in this regard was lodged by Rahammatulla Aga, under secretarypersonnel (II). Candidates Nilesh Bhagwant Naik, Tushar Tanaji Halarnkar,Brucelee Jesus Nazario Savio Quadros, Praveen Prakash Shirodkar, ArvindBhanudas Khutkar, Nilesh Kushta Dhaigodkar, Anand Shanu Velip, DaulatraoVijayrao Rane Sardesai, Vyankatesh Nanda Sawant, Secretary of GPSC TukaramSawant, and others have been booked under section 120(B) IPC and Sec 13(1),13(2) of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. All these selected candidatescontested the matter in High Court, but failed to get favorable reprieve. Theyappealed to the Apex Court which stayed the nine posts and remanded the matterto the High Court at Goa to decide afresh. InDecember 2013, written examination was conducted by GPSC however no interviewswere conducted and the process was subsequently annulled in December 2014. Now,after a gap of twelve years, exams were conducted at the fag end of the year2015. Twenty-one candidates were recommended to the posts of junior scaleofficers of Goa civil Service. The State cabinet decided to recruit only 13 dueto a Supreme Court stay order. This stay order was obtained from the Apex courtby 4 petitioners including the said Nilesh B Naik. Regards AMARKANTAK Address:H. No: 185-J, Aquem – Alto, Margao, Goa - INDIA. MOB: 9325827455 E-MAIL:[email protected] / [email protected]
