New Delhi: UPSC aspirants on Saturday moved the Supreme Court seeking a stay on the Prelim exams scheduled on Sunday.
The SC is expected to hear the matter at 11 AM today.
"What is the rush in conducting this exam? The changes in the exams were made in a huff. It is not that we are moving the court in the last moment, it took the registry time to process our plea. We are thankful that the court is hearing us before the exams", said Ravindra S Garia who is fighting the case for the aspirants.
The Delhi High Court on Friday declined to hear a PIL against UPSC's decision asking candidates not to answer questions in English Comprehensive section of the preliminary examination of the civil services to be held on August 24.
"Why don't you (a lawyer who is also appearing in the exam) go and prepare for the examination instead of filing this PIL"? a bench of justices BD Ahmed and Siddharth Mridul said.
The bench also said the matter is not a PIL and is a personal litigation so the petitioner, Vikas Nagwan, should approach the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT).
The single judge bench had refused to hear that plea saying it was not "maintainable". The court, however, had granted him the liberty to file a PIL on the issue. However, the larger bench on Friday raised objections to the maintainability of the PIL and asked the lawyer to give reasons that it was worthy to be heard as a PIL.
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