Key Points
Supreme Court champions inclusive judicial recruitment framework
Strikes down MP rules barring visually impaired candidates
Advocates affirmative action for disabled applicants
Emphasizes substantive equality in service selection
A bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan further said that the state must provide them affirmative action to ensure an inclusive framework.
"Any indirect discrimination that results in the exclusion of persons with disabilities, whether through cutoff or procedural barriers must be interfered with to uphold substantive equality," the Supreme Court said in its order.
The top court struck down a rule of the Madhya Pradesh Judicial Services Rules to the extent that it barred visually impaired and low-vision candidates from judicial service.
The apex court said, "Visually impaired candidates cannot be said to be not suitable for judicial service and they are eligible to participate in selection for posts in judicial service."
The verdict of the top court came in a suo motu case regarding Rule 6A of the Madhya Pradesh Services Examination (Recruitment and Conditions of Services) Rules 1994.
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