The Supreme Court declined to stay AP’s teacher recruitment exams, citing ongoing proceedings and lack of jurisdiction. Petitioners were directed to approach the state High Court after vacation.
NEW DELHI: Today, on June 12, the Supreme Court of India refused to entertain a plea seeking to stop the ongoing teacher recruitment exams in Andhra Pradesh. The exams, which are part of a large recruitment process to fill over 16,000 teaching posts, started on June 6 and will continue until July 6.
A bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Manmohan made it clear that the top court would not interfere in the matter, especially as the exams had already started.
The bench told the petitioner’s lawyer,
“We don’t devise a mechanism for holding examinations. It is not our expertise.”
The Court also asked the petitioner why they did not approach the Andhra Pradesh High Court first, instead of directly coming to the Supreme Court under Article 32 of the Constitution.
In response, the petitioner’s counsel said that the Andhra Pradesh High Court was on summer vacation.
To this, the Supreme Court replied,
“The High Court of Andhra Pradesh is reopening after summer vacation on June 16. In view of the above, we are not inclined to entertain this petition under Article 32 of the Constitution of India. The petitioner would be at liberty to approach the high court.”
During the hearing, the petitioner’s lawyer also raised concerns over how the exams were being conducted.
He pointed out that even for district-level recruitment, the government had planned multiple shifts for the exams.
The counsel explained,
“They are going for a computer-based testing and then they go for normalisation.”
Despite these concerns, the bench was firm in its decision, stating,
“The exams have commenced. We can’t stop them midway.”
Adding to the discussion, Additional Solicitor General S V Raju informed the bench that over one lakh candidates had already appeared for the teacher recruitment exams, which further strengthened the Court’s view that the process should not be disrupted.
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The plea had challenged the state government’s method of conducting the examinations and sought an immediate halt to the process.
Case Title:
POSINA ANAND SAI v. UNION OF INDIA AND ORS|W.P.(C) No. 576/2025
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