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25.Keeping in mind the importance of selection of candidates for the appointment to the Public Service, the Constitution of India under Article 315 directed that there shall be a Public Service Commission for the Union and Public Service Commission for each States. The members of the Public Service Commission are appointed in terms of the provisions of Article 316 and on such appointment, they become the Constitutional Functionaries. Article 320 relates to the functions of Public Service Commission among other things and one of the duties of the Public Service Commission is to conduct examination for appointments to the services of the Union and the services of the State respectively. Being a constitutional functionary, the Public Service Commission is entrusted with the task of ensuring the constitutional mandate as to the reservation. To ensure the highest standards in the recruitment process, the Commission has been given highest degree of latitude in its operations and for that purpose, the Constitution of India itself ensures the independence of the commission coming from political, executive or from any side. As against the functions of appointing authority to verify the community certificates produced at the time of seeking for appointments, the TNPSC being a constitutional functionary, to ensure that the reservation made under the Constitution is strictly applied and only such of those eligible candidates are considered and selected as against the posts reserved, would have more responsibility while considering the certificates produced by the candidates. The responsibility of TNPSC cannot be reduced to one of mere recruiting agency without there being a corresponding responsibility to ensure the constitutional mandate of reservation as to the prima facie satisfaction in regard to the truthfulness of the certificate, which may not result in verification of the genuineness of the same and for that reason, the TNPSC is entitled to forward the certificate for verification to the competent Committee. To this extent, the Public Service Commission should have the power to go into the truthfulness of the certificate, and not the power to scrutinize the genuineness or correctness of the certificate of a candidate, who seeks an appointment. The truthfulness of the certificate would be with reference to the production of the caste verification certificate from the Scrutiny Committee by the candidates as provided in direction No.3 of paragraph 13 of the judgment in Kumari Madhuri Patil's case. This would only be a limited power to ensure that the certificate produced by the applicant who is selected for the appointment under the reserved category is genuine and at the guise of reservation, the applicant who is not otherwise entitled, should not secure an appointment to a post which is reserved for the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe candidate.