NEW DELHI: The AP High Court registry and the state government were asked by the Supreme Court Friday to reply to a plea for quashing a notification for appointment of 18 district and sessions judges. A bench of justices D K Jain and A R Dave also issued notice to the APPSC, seeking its reply within four weeks, to the plea for quashing the Dec. 22, 2011 notification on grounds of irregularities in the appointments. The order came on a petition by an advocate Bavi Papi Reddy Barrenka, a candidate for a judge post in the physically-challenged category.Barrenka in his petition accused the HC of amending the appointment rules through the selection process and making the appointments.The petitioner claimed that the HC amended the rules by dispensing with the need for a viva voce, though it had no power to do so. He said in the results of the written test, announced by the HC on Aug. 8, 2011, he had been declared to have qualified along with 52 others.The state government, however, suddenly at the behest of the HC, issued an order (GO Ms. No.132) on Nov. 16, amending the original rules by deleting the requirement of minimum qualifying marks for a viva voce, said Barrenka. In his petition, he claimed though he got the highest marks in the viva voce he was not selected and instead another candidate who got less marks than him was selected.“Viva voice is the only tool to know their verbal acumen and to say that a candidate would be selected even if he gets zero in the viva voice, is nothing but contrary to public policy and is unconstitutional and hence the selections deserves to be quashed as such,” he said.
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