Overview

• A two-judge bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi ruled that implicating over 2,000 bribe-paying job aspirants as defendants amounts to a fraud on the judicial system
• The court ordered Tamil Nadu to submit a comprehensive list of all accused individuals and witnesses by the next hearing on August 11
• Justices questioned how proceedings with more than 2,000 accused and 500 witnesses could be managed without a detailed prosecutorial plan
• The bench suggested that many of those labeled as accused were effectively victims coerced into paying bribes and should be treated as witnesses rather than defendants
• The court pressed the state to identify prime accused and middlemen, including officers and selection committee members, to streamline trial logistics