THE HON’BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE SRI APARESH KUMAR SINGH AND THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE G.M. MOHIUDDIN WRIT APPEAL No.1104 of 2025

JUDGMENT:

This Writ Appeal is filed by the State Level Police Recruitment Board, assailing the common order dated 13.02.2025 passed by the learned Single Judge in W.P.No.40400 of 2018 and W.P.No.880 of 2020. By the said order, the learned Single Judge allowed the writ petitions filed by the respondent herein (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Writ Petitioner’) and directed the appellant and respondent Nos.2 to 5 herein (hereinafter ‘respondents’ in the writ petition) to appoint the writ petitioner as a Stipendiary Cadet Trainee (SCT) Sub-Inspector (Civil) and to send him for training in the next training camp.

2. Heard learned Standing Counsel for the Appellant-Board; the learned Government Pleader for Services (Home) for the respondents in the writ petition; and Sri M.Surender Rao, learned Senior counsel for the writ petitioner at considerable length and perused the material on record, including the pleadings and the precedents cited.

3. The factual matrix, in the present case, is that the writ petitioner was provisionally selected for the post of SCT Reserve Sub