HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE ABHINAND KUMAR SHAVILI &

HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE LAXMI NARAYANA ALISHETTY WRIT APPEAL Nos.910, 1256, 1345 of 2024 & WRIT PETITION No.18583 of 2024

COMMON JUDGMENT:

(per Hon’ble Sri Justice Laxmi Narayana Alishetty)

Writ Petition No.18583 of 2024 is filed to declare the action of Telangana Residential Educational Institutions Recruitment Board (for brevity, hereinafter referred to as ‘TREIRB’) in not conducting examination dated 01.08.2023 in Telugu language for the post of Craft Teachers in Residential Educational Institutions Societies as per Notification No.07/2023, dated 05.04.2023, as illegal and arbitrary, and consequently, to direct TREIRB to conduct fresh examination to the post of Craft Teachers in bilingual mode, i.e., English and Telugu.

2. W.A.No.910 of 2024 is filed by writ petitioner Nos.1 and 2 in W.P.18583 of 2024 aggrieved by the interim order dated

16.07.2024 passed in WP No.18583 of 2024.

3. W.A.No.1256 of 2024 is filed by TREIRB and W.A.No.1345 of 2024 is filed by the candidates aggrieved by the order dated

04.04.2024 passed by a learned single Judge of this Court in W.P.No.22593 of 2023.

4. Since the issue involved in all these cases is one and the same, all the cases are heard together and are being disposed of by this common judgment.

5. Heard Sri Baglekar Akash Kumar, learned counsel for the appellants in WA.No.910 of 2024 and the petitioners in WP.No.18583 of 2024, Sri V.Yadu Krishna Sainath, learned counsel for appellants in WA.No.1345 of 2024, Sri N.Ramesh, learned Standing Counsel for TREIRB and learned Government Pleader for Higher Education.

6. For convenience, the parties are hereinafter referred to as they are arrayed in W.P.No.18583 of 2024 and the facts of the case as narrated in Writ Petition No.18583 of 2024 are referred hereunder:

7. Respondent No.1 issued Notification No.07/2023 dated 05.04.2023 inviting On-line applications from qualified candidates for direct recruitment to the post of Craft Teachers in Residential Educational Institutions Societies. In the said notification, at Para-I (1) (v), it was mentioned that question paper will be bilingual i.e., English and Telugu. Petitioners responded to the said notification and submitted their applications. Examination was conducted on 01.08.2023, however, contrary to the notification, the question paper was given in English language only instead of giving in both English and Telugu languages. Petitioners made oral representation to the authorities concerned requesting to cancel the examination and to conduct re-examination in both English and Telugu languages. However, as no action was taken by the authorities concerned, Writ Petition No.18583 of 2024 was filed by the candidates seeking to declare the action of TREIRB in not conducting the examination dated 01.08.2023 in Telugu language for the post of Craft Teachers in Residential Educational Institutions as illegal and arbitrary and a learned single Judge of this Court while issuing notice before admission, passed interim order, dated 16.07.2024, holding that any selections made pursuant to Notification No.07/2023, dated 05.04.2023, shall be subject to the final outcome of the said writ petition. Aggrieved by the said interim order dated 16.07.2024 and non-granting of relief of withholding the declaration of results of examination dated 01.08.2023 conducted for the post of Craft Teachers, petitioner Nos.1 and 2 therein preferred W.A.No.910 of 2024.

8. It is further averred that earlier, some of the candidates who wrote examination for the post of Art Teachers have filed W.P.No.22593 of 2023 seeking to declare the action of TREIRB in not conducting the examination in Telugu language as null and void and a learned single Judge of this Court vide order dated 23.08.2023 granted interim order directing the respondents not to finalize the results of the examination held on 01.08.2023 until further orders. In view of the said interim order, TREIRB has not declared the results of examinatio