Supreme Court Decision Over Blind Candidates to become Judges

Supreme Court: On Monday, the Supreme Court gave a big verdict and said that blind candidates can also become judges. The apex court said that blind candidates cannot be stopped from jobs in judicial service. The court also termed the rule of Madhya Pradesh as unconstitutional, which prevents blind and blind candidates from appointment in judicial services.

The bench of Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice R. Mahadevan said that no candidate can be prevented from being admitted to judicial service on the basis of his physical disqualification. The bench said that there should be no discrimination against people with physical disqualification in judicial service. To encourage these people, steps should also be taken by the state government.

According to The Hindu, the Supreme Court has given this decision on six petitions. In one of these cases, the court took self -cognizance. These petitions were filed on the issue of not giving reservation to blind candidates in judicial services in some states. Along with this, the apex court canceled some provisions of Madhya Pradesh Save Examination Rules, 1994 as unconstitutional and canceled them. According to Live Law, the court also heard the petition of disabled candidates related to Rajasthan Judicial Services Examination. He said that he was not given a separate cut-off, due to which he could not reach the main examination.

What did the Supreme Court say?

The Supreme Court has said that the disabled candidates who have appeared in the judicial service examination. They will get a chance to be selected again. If they have all the necessary qualifications, then they can be appointed to vacant posts. The court clarified that doing so with disabled candidates would be discriminatory and the government will have to adopt an inclusive policy.

Blind candidate’s mother wrote a letter to former CJI

The case started when the mother of a blind candidate wrote a letter to former Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud. It was accepted as a petition under Article 32 of the Constitution, after which the hearing in the case started. The apex court issued a notice to the Registrar General of Madhya Pradesh High Court, Madhya Pradesh Government and the Central Government in this case. After the hearing, the court found that reservation was not given for blind candidates in the examination.