Supreme Court stays Uttarakhand Rule that blocked Disabled Candidates from appearing in Judicial Exams

The Supreme Court has stayed a 2018 Uttarakhand government notification that barred blind and locomotor-disabled candidates from applying in the general category for state judicial services.

A bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and KV Viswanathan termed the rule “absurd” and directed that visually impaired and other benchmark disability candidates excluded from the PwBD quota must be allowed to sit for the August 31 preliminary exam under general, SC, ST, or OBC categories. 

The Court reserved judgment on the larger interpretative challenge but granted immediate relief by allowing excluded disabled candidates to take the upcoming exam under general or reserved categories with necessary accommodations.

[Sravya Sindhuri v Uttarakhand Public Service Commission]