Overview

• Justice Ajit Kumar directed UPPSC on September 25 to redraw the preliminary merit list and to conduct the mains only after publishing the revised result.
• The court held that reserved-category candidates who score at or above the unreserved cutoff must be counted in the open merit list.
• It clarified that age relaxation and application fee concessions are statutory benefits and do not count as other relaxations that would prevent placement in the unreserved list.
• Petitioners challenged non-compliance with the advertised 1:15 shortlisting ratio, and the court noted fewer unreserved qualifiers while some reserved categories exceeded the ratio.
• The order covers Advertisement No. A-3/E-1/2024 for 609 vacancies, including Assistant Engineers, District Horticulture Officers, Food Processing Officers, and Senior Technical Assistants.