List of Muslim candidates on UPSC Civil Services Merit List 2023
New Delhi: More than 50 Muslim candidates have secured positions in the UPSC Civil Services Merit List 2023, which was released today. Among them, five candidates—Ruhani, Nausheen, Wardah Khan, Zufishan Haque, and Fabi Rasheed—have achieved ranks within the top 100 positions.
A total of 1,016 candidates have successfully cleared the examination and have been recommended for various central government services, as announced by the UPSC.
The Civil Services Examination, conducted annually in three stages—preliminary, main, and interview—by the UPSC, aims to select officers for prestigious services such as the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS), and Indian Police Service (IPS), among others.
Below is the list of Muslim candidates who have made it to the Civil Services Merit List 2023:
5: RUHANI
9: NAUSHEEN
18: WARDAH KHAN
34: ZUFISHAN HAQUE
71: FABI RASHEED
111: ARFA USMANI
157: SYED ADEEL MOHSIN
165: KHAN SAIMA SERAJ AHMED
188: SAYEM RAZA
241: FARHEEN ZAHID
253: AREEBA SAGHIR
278: EHTEDA MUFASSIR
311: NAZISH UMAR ANSARI
312: SYED MUSTAFA HASHMI
317: FATHIMA SHIMNA PARAVATH
323: SHAHIDA BEGUM S
332: HAMID NAVED
339: AREEBA NOMAAN
345: MOHAMMAD HARIS MIR
369: MOHAMMAD FARHAN SEH
374: MD TABISH HASAN
388: GHULAM MAYA DIN
418: ALIFA KHAN
447: DANISH RABBANI KHAN
469: ZOHRA BANU
481: MD ASIM MUJTEBA
507: ABDUL FASAL P V
512: MOHAMMAD AFTAB ALAM
516: SEERAT BAJI
574: AFZAL ALI
659: MOHAMED RISWIN I
670: NAZIA PARWEEN
677: SYED TALIB AHMED
730: SHOIAB
744: ABDULLAH ZAHID
745: THASLIM M
758: SOPHIA SIDDIQUI
762: MD SHAHANSHAH SIDDIQUE
770: MOHD ASHFAQ
819: ATIF WAQUAR EKRAM ANSARI
822: MD BURHAN ZAMAN
825: GHANCHI GAZALA MOHMADHANIF
826: SYED SADIQUE
839: NAJMA A SALAM
840: RASHIDALI A
845: J ASHIQ HUSSAIN
851: INBA S
852: AHRAS A N
866: HAMSA SHREE N A
1012: MD WARSHID KHAN
1013: AZMAL HUSSAIN
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SC stays CBI probe into West Bengal govt officials' role in teacher recruitment scam
New Delhi, Apr 29: The Supreme Court on Monday stayed a Calcutta High Court order directing the CBI to probe the role of West Bengal government officials in a teacher recruitment scam. It, however, refused to stay for now the cancellation of the appointment of over 25,000 teachers and non-teaching staff.
The top court was hearing a plea by the West Bengal government against a high court order invalidating the appointment of 25,753 teachers and non-teaching staff made by the School Service Commission (SSC) in state-run and state-aided schools.
A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra, however, refused to stay the high court order cancelling the appointments and said it will hear the matter on May 6.
Observing that taking away the jobs of about 25,000 persons is a serious matter, the top court asked if it is possible to segregate the valid and invalid appointments on the basis of the material available and who the beneficiaries of the fraud are.
"We will stay the direction which says the CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) will undertake further investigation against officials in the state government," the bench said.
Calcutta High Court had said the CBI would undertake further investigations with regard to the persons in the state government involved in approving the creation of supernumerary posts to accommodate illegal appointments.
If necessary, the CBI will undertake custodial interrogation of such persons involved, it had said.
Challenging the order, the state government, in its appeal filed before the top court, said the high court cancelled the appointments "arbitrarily".
"The high court failed to appreciate the ramification of cancelling the entire selection process, leading to straightaway termination of teaching and non-teaching staff from service with immediate effect, without giving sufficient time to the petitioner state to deal with such an exigency, rendering the education system at a standstill," the plea said.
Calcutta High Court last week declared the selection process as "null and void" and directed the CBI to probe the appointment process. It also asked the central agency to submit a report within three months.
"All appointments granted in the selection processes involved being violative of articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution of India, are declared null and void and cancelled," the high court said in its April 22 order.
The high court said those appointed outside the officially available 24,640 vacancies, appointed after the expiry of the official date of recruitment, and those who submitted blank Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) sheets but obtained appointment to return all remunerations and benefits received by them with 12 per cent interest per annum within four weeks.
Observing that it had given "anxious consideration to the passionate plea" that persons who obtained the appointments legally would be prejudiced if the entire selection process was cancelled, the bench said it hardly had any choice left.
The high court held that all appointments involved were violative of articles 14 (equality before law) and 16 (prohibiting discrimination in employment in any government office) of the Constitution.
"It is shocking that, at the level of the cabinet of the state government, a decision is taken to protect employment obtained fraudulently in a selection process conducted by SSC for state-funded schools, knowing fully well that, such appointments were obtained beyond the panel and after expiry of the panel, at the bare minimum," the high court had said.
It said unless "there is a deep connection between the persons perpetuating the fraud and the beneficiaries" with persons involved in the decision-making process, such action to create supernumerary posts to protect illegal appointments is "inconceivable".
The division bench had also rejected a prayer by some appellants, including the SSC, for a stay on the order and asked the commission to initiate a fresh appointment process within a fortnight from the date of the results of the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.
The bench, constituted by the high court chief justice on a direction of the Supreme Court, had heard 350 petitions and appeals relating to the selection of candidates for appointment by the SSC in the categories of teachers of classes 9, 10, 11 and 12 and group-C and D staffers through the SLST-2016.
In its 282-page judgment, the high court had said retaining appointees selected through "such a dubious process" would be contrary to public interest.
