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2024 Supreme(Ker) 162

BASANT BALAJI
Athul Antony A. S/o John Sherry – Appellant
Versus
High Court of Kerala Represented by the Registrar General – Respondent


Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Petitioners: Rekha Vasudevan, P. Prathyusha, Rojit Zachariah.
For the Respondents: V.A. Muhammed, P.M. Saneer Shajin, S. Hameed.

JUDGMENT :

BASANT BALAJI, J.

1. An unsuccessful candidate for the post of Office Attendant of this court has filed this Writ petition, challenging the notification prescribing a minimum of 35% marks for qualifying in the interview to be included in the rank list.

2. Brief facts of the case are as follows:

    The petitioner is suffering from moderate mental retardation with intellectual disability of 50% and having IQ of 56. Applications were invited pursuant to Ext.P3 notification to the post of office attendant through direct recruitment. The mode of selection as per the notification is two-fold (i) a written test and (ii) an interview. The total mark from the written test is 100, and for an interview, it is 10. The minimum mark required to be included in the rank list is fixed at 35% in the interview. Under Ext.Nos.P2 and P3, the petitioner applied to the post under the quota reserved for persons with disability. The petitioner attended the written test and became successful. When the provisional list of candidates who are eligible for interview was published as per Ext.P8, 1% of the total vacancies reserved for persons with intellectual disability was not included. Therefore, the petit

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