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Karnataka
By Our Staff Reporter
The Division Bench, comprising Justice R.V. Raveendran and Justice Karnam Sridhar Rao, passed the order while admitting the petition filed by a Bangalore-based advocate, N.P. Amrutesh. The Bench posted the case to June 5 for further hearing. The petitioner has sought directions to the Government and the KPSC to initiate criminal action against Mr. Monnappa, Rameshwarappa, Shivanna, and other candidates, whom the KPSC found guilty of examination malpractice. He has also named as respondents K. Subramanya Bhat, Veerabhadraiah, K. Vishwanath, examiners of KAS Main Examination answer scripts, P.R. Ganapathy, personal assistant to the KPSC Secretary, Panduranga, Junior Computer Programmer, KPSC, M. Leela, Rameshwarappa, B.S. Nagaraj, B.S. Triveni, B.S. Hemalatha, K.C. Ponnappa, P.C. Naveen, K.R. Pratap, N.T. Cauveriappa, and K.G. Subhash, alleged beneficiaries of the job scam. Mr. Amrutesh said that the Gazetted Probationers' Examination, 1998, which concluded in 2001, was mired in several controversies. The Karnataka Administrative Tribunal (KAT) directed the KPSC to hold fresh valuation of answer scripts of the main examination on several applications filed by candidates. The candidates alleged that Mr. Rameshwarappa and members of his family, who secured top ranks, had indulged in examination malpractice. However, the High Court set aside the KAT order and directed the KPSC to conduct moderation of certain percentage of answer scripts on appeals filed by the KPSC and others. The KPSC then produced a report of an internal inquiry before the High Court. The report said that none other than the then KPSC secretary, Mr. Monnappa, who was associated with Mr. Rameshwarappa, facilitated the malpractice. The report said that Prof. Shivanna, who was the Chief Examiner, awarded high marks to Mr. Rameshwarappa and members of his family, Mr. Nagaraj, Ms. Triveni and Ms. Hemalatha, after Mr. Monnappa parted with the codes of registration numbers. Subsequently, KPSC debarred all the candidates found guilty of malpractice, from appearing in any selection process. Though the report was submitted to the Government recommending action against the guilty, the Government did not initiate any action, Mr. Amrutesh pointed out. Bowing to newspaper reports, the Government appointed the Additional Chief Secretary, K.K. Mishra, to inquire into the report submitted by the KPSC against Mr. Monnappa. Despite Mr. Mishra submitting his report a month ago, the Government neither made the report public nor did it act on it, the petitioner contended. The scam, admitted by the KPSC itself through its report, has shattered the confidence of candidates and the people in the selection process to government jobs, the petitioner said. He noted that through such malpractice, "right" candidates were not selected to government jobs. While the Government kept Mr. Monnappa without posting for about a month, it did not initiate any action against Mr. Rameshwarappa, the petitioner said. Mr. Monnappa was now the Joint Secretary, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department and Mr. Rameshwarappa was the Deputy Director of Food and Civil Supplies, Mysore, he said. He sought an interim direction to the Government to keep Mr. Monnappa, Mr. Rameshwarappa, and Mr. Ganapathy under suspension.
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