BPSC Row: SC issues announcement successful plea challenging BPSC chairperson. (Image: file)
The Supreme Court connected Monday sought effect of the Bihar authorities connected a PIL challenging the assignment of Bihar Public Service Commission chairperson Parmar Ravi Manubhai.
A seat comprising justices P S Narasimha and Manoj Misra took enactment of the submissions of lawyer petitioner Brajesh Singh challenging the assignment of Manubhai arsenic the Commission head. The bench, however, was captious of the information that a lawyer, who has nary locus oregon narration to the functioning of the BPSC, has filed the PIL. “As a lawyer you should support distant from filing these kinds of PILs erstwhile you person nary locus oregon narration with the BPSC,” the seat said portion issuing the notices to the authorities authorities and the BPSC chairperson.
The seat besides appointed an amicus curiae to prosecute the PIL. The plea challenged the assignment made connected March 15, 2024, saying it was against the law mandate of appointing lone those with an “impeccable character” arsenic the chairperson oregon subordinate of nationalist work commissions.
According to the PIL, Parmar was an accused successful the alleged corruption lawsuit registered by Bihar’s vigilance bureau and the substance was pending earlier a peculiar justice successful Patna. “Thus apparently, responsive fig 2 (Parmar) is facing superior charges of committing the offence of corruption and forgery and arsenic specified his integrity is doubtful and therefore, helium ought not to person been appointed arsenic the president of BPSC,” the petition said.
It claimed that Parmar did not fulfil the basal eligibility criteria for being appointed to the law station of chairperson arsenic helium was not a idiosyncratic with an impeccable character.