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Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission v. R.Sameera

Madras HC16 Sept 2025WA/522/2022

Case brief

AI extract

What is this about?

TNPSC writ appeal closed; Agricultural Officer appointment under BC Muslim category; seniority from 2018 recruitment notification plea not entertained (prayer not raised before learned Single Judge); liberty granted to respondent to work out remedies before authority; G.O.(Ms).No.31 BCC Department dated 09.03.2024; appointment on 31.01.2024; Clause 15 of the Letters Patent; challenge to order dated 24.03.2021 in W.P.No.34232 of 2018; no costs; CMP.No.3826 of 2022 closed; Madras High Court; M.S. Ramesh and R. Sakthivel JJ.; judgment dated 16.09.2025.

What did the court decide?

Liberty granted to the respondent to work out her remedies before the authority concerned, in accordance with law; Writ Appeal closed with no costs and connected miscellaneous petition closed. ¶27

Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission Vs R.Sameera — Madras HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

What the court decided

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Outcome

Liberty granted to the respondent to work out her remedies before the authority concerned, in accordance with law; Writ Appeal closed with no costs and connected miscellaneous petition closed.

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Issue for consideration

Whether the order dated 24.03.2021 passed in W.P.No.34232 of 2018 should be set aside (relief prayed for in the writ appeal under Clause 15 of the Letters Patent). +1 more

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Court's answer

The Writ Appeal stands closed with no costs, and the connected miscellaneous petition (CMP.No.3826 of 2022) is closed.

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Ratio / Principle

The Court declined to entertain the respondent's seniority plea at this stage, since such a prayer was not made before the learned Single Judge when the writ petition was disposed of; it rendered no view on the plea and granted the respondent liberty to work out her remedies before the authority concerned in accordance with law.

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Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

Division Bench of the High Court of Judicature at Madras (M.S. Ramesh and R. Sakthivel, JJ.) closed the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission's writ appeal (W.A.No.522 of 2022, under Clause 15 of the Letters Patent) against the order dated 24.03.2021 in W.P.No.34232 of 2018, by which the Single Judge had disposed of the respondent's writ petition seeking a mandamus to direct TNPSC to select and appoint her to the vacant post of Agricultural Officer under the BC Muslim category. Recording that the respondent had been appointed as an Agricultural Officer under BC Muslim category on 31.01.2024 pursuant to G.O.(Ms).No.31, Backward Classes, Most Backward Classes and Minorities Welfare (BCC) Department, dated 09.03.2024, and was continuing in service, the Court declined to entertain her counsel's plea that her seniority be reckoned from the date on which similarly placed persons were appointed under the 2018 recruitment notification, since that prayer had not been made before the learned Single Judge; liberty was granted to her to work out her remedies before the authority concerned in accordance with law. The appeal was closed with no costs and the connected CMP.No.3826 of 2022 was also closed.

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W.A.No.522 of 2022

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

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DATED : 16.09.2025

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CORAM :

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THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE M.S. RAMESH AND THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE R.SAKTHIVEL

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W.A.No.522 of 2022 and CMP.No.3826 of 2022

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Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission, Rep. By its Secretary, Frazer Bridge Road, VOC Nagar, Chennai-600 003 ... Appellant

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Vs.

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R.Sameera ... Respondent

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PRAYER: Appeal is filed under Clause 15 of the Letters Patent, praying to

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set aside the order dated 24.03.2021 passed in W.P.No.34232 of 2018.

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For Appellant : Mr.I.Abrar Mohammed Abdullah

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For Respondents : Mr.L.Chandrakumar

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JUDGMENT

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(Judgment of this Court was delivered by M.S.RAMESH.J)

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The prayer in the Writ Petition was for issuance of a Writ of Mandamus, directing the TNPSC to select and appoint the petitioner therein to the vacant post of Agricultural Officer under BC Muslim category. The Writ Petition came to be disposed of on 24.03.2021, as against which, the present Writ Appeal has been filed.

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Learned counsel for the appellant / TNPSC submitted that on 31.01.2024, the respondent was appointed as an Agricultural Officer under BC Muslim category as per G.O.(Ms).No.31, Backward Classes, Most Backward Classes and Minorities Welfare (BCC) Department, dated 09.03.2024 and she is now continuing her services.

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Learned counsel for the respondent submitted that the recruitment notification was in the year 2018 and, therefore, the seniority of the respondent ought to be reckoned from the date on which similarly placed persons were appointed under the said notification.

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We are not be in a position to entertain such a plea at this stage,

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since such a prayer was not made before the learned Single Judge when the Writ Petition came to be disposed of. In this background, we are not inclined to render any of our views on the plea made. However, liberty is granted to the respondent herein to workout her remedies before the authority concerned, in accordance with law.

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