ORDER :

Nyapathy Vijay, J.

The present writ petition is filed seeking to declare Memo No.GAD03-NTFORT(GR1)/2022-GRP-1 (Comp.No.1866514), dated 16.08.2024 issued by Respondent No.2-APPSC as illegal and arbitrary.

2. The facts leading to filing of this writ petition are as follows:

The Respondent No.2-APPSC had issued notification No.39 of 2008 and a supplementary notification No.10 of 2009 for recruitment of posts under Group-I services. The Petitioner had applied for the same with Hall Ticket No.11818559 and was successful in the preliminary examination. Petitioner states that he had also fared well in the main examinations and was expecting a call for interviews. However, the Petitioner was not called for the interview. Thereafter, interviews were conducted in May, 2012 and a list of qualified candidates were displayed by APPSC on 12.05.2012. Respondent No.2-APPSC, as per its practice, does not disclose the marks of the candidates till the selections are finalized and the Petitioner could secure the marks obtained by him in the five papers of the main examination only on 12.05.2012. In the five papers in the main examination, the Petitioner secured 88, 83, 97 and 130 marks insofar as Paper Nos.I, II, III and V. As regards Paper-IV (Science and Technology), the Petitioner secured only 49 marks. Immediately, the Petitioner submitted a representation on 15.05.2012 requesting the APPSC to examine the issue regarding Paper-IV and re-evaluate or recount the marks in respect of the said paper. As there was no response, the Petitioner had requested the APPSC under Right to Information Act to furnish copies of answer sheets and a direction was given by the Appellate Authority under the said Act on 14.03.2013 to permit inspection of the answer script. However, the APPSC did not permit the Petitioner to inspect the answer script as the issue regarding recruitment was pending before the Hon’ble Supreme Court.

3. After disposal of the case before the Hon’ble Supreme Court, the answer script was given to the Petitioner. On perusal of the answer script, the Petitioner was awarded only 2 to 3 marks for questions which carry 10 marks and for one question, ‘0’ marks were awarded. The Petitioner then filed another representation to the APPSC on 01.04.2016 for re-evaluating the answer sheets. As there was no response, the Petitioner filed O.A.No.1452 of 2016 before the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunal at Hyderabad to call for the answer scripts of the Petitioner and other students and to constitute a committee of professors to evaluate the answer script of Paper-IV and to conduct interviews. The O.A was dismissed on 28.04.2017.

4. Thereafter, Petitioner filed W.P.No.32196 of 2017 before the common High Court at Hyderabad and the same was dismissed as withdrawn on 21.09.2017 with liberty to file review before the Tribunal. The Petitioner then filed Review M.A.(SR)No.5139 of 2017 before Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunal and the Office Objection was placed before the Court, which was upheld vide orders dated 07.12.2017. Thereafter, Petitioner filed W.P.No.11385 of 2019 and W.P.No.19420 of 2020 respectively against the order rejecting the review and questioning the final order in O.A.No.1452 of 2016. W.P.No.19420 of 2020 filed questioning the order in O.A.No.1452 of 2016 was dismissed and W.P.No.11385 of 2019 was closed as no further orders were required to be passed. The Review I.A.No.1 of 2021 in W.P.No.19450 of 2020 was also dismissed on 10.12.2021.

5. Petitioner, thereafter, filed SLP.Nos.4484, 4485 and 4486 of 2022 questioning the orders in two writ petitions as well as Review I.A.No.1 of 2021 in W.P.No.19450 of 2020. The said SLPs were dismissed at the admission stage on 28.03.2022.

6. Convinced that injustice was meted out, the Petitioner, thereafter, gave a representation on 14.09.2022 to APPSC requesting for correction of errors crept in evaluation of his answer sheet. As there was no response, Petitioner filed W.P.No.14122 of