MP HC vacates stay on SSE-2025 main exam

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has vacated its interim stay on holding the main exam of the MPPSC State Services Examination (SSE)-2025.

This ends the year-long wait for around 4,000 candidates aspiring to become deputy collectors, deputy superintendents of police, tehsildars and other state positions. An official said they will now be able to take the main exam after clearing the preliminary test.

A division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Vivek Rusia and Justice Pradeep Mittal passed the order on Thursday while hearing a clutch of petitions challenging certain provisions and procedures related to the examination process.

The court, on April 2, 2025, had directed that the main exam of the State Services Examination should not be conducted without its permission. Senior advocate Rameshwar Thakur, appearing for the petitioners, submitted that since their pleas were unlikely to be disposed of in the immediate future, the stay on the main examination should be lifted and the remaining legal issues could be heard separately at a later date.

Accepting the request, the division bench vacated the interim stay and permitted the Madhya Pradesh Public Service Commission (MPPSC) to conduct the main examination, Thakur said.

The petitions have challenged, among other issues, the constitutional validity of rules relating to the non-disclosure of category-wise cut-off marks in the preliminary examination results of the SSE-2025.

The petitioners also questioned the alleged non-selection of meritorious reserved category candidates against unreserved posts and the non-migration of candidates who availed age relaxation and other concessions to the unreserved category, Thakur said.

During the proceedings, the MPPSC submitted category-wise cut-off marks to the court in a sealed cover but did not specifically respond to the issues raised in the petitions, he said.

The high court will next hear the matter on July 17.