Hyderabad, July 28 -- The Telangana High Court has directed the state government to declare the examination result of a candidate for the post of Chairperson of a Child Welfare Committee (CWC), after he had appeared for the exam under an earlier interim order of the court.

The High Court had earlier held that merely having a criminal case pending against a candidate is not grounds to disqualify him under Section 27 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015, which bars only those who have actually been convicted and not those merely facing a pending case, and had directed authorities to issue him a hall ticket for the exam.

Since he had gone on to take the exam under that order, the court has now directed that h...