Overview
- A Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice BR Gavai, Justice K Vinod Chandran and Justice NV Anjaria directed the CGPSC to let petitioners take the September 21 preliminary exam despite not being enrolled as Advocates on the advertisement date.
- The interim relief covers Public Prosecutors and Government Advocates whose Bar enrolment was suspended due to service rules, and whose admit cards had been withheld.
- The Court clarified that appearing in the exam will not create equities for these candidates and told the PSC not to insist on the three‑year practice requirement since the notification predated the AIJA judgment.
- The intervention follows a September 16 Chhattisgarh High Court decision dismissing writ petitions and upholding exclusion of non‑enrolled candidates by applying AIJA para 90 to the December 23, 2024 advertisement.
- Eligibility became contested after a July 5, 2024 rules amendment mandated Bar enrolment, an initial High Court interim order in January 2025 allowed non‑enrolled candidates to apply, and the PSC later withheld admit cards before the present Supreme Court directive.