According to the petition, the UPSC currently allows candidates with benchmark disabilities, including blindness, low vision, locomotor disability and cerebral palsy, to use scribes. However, the eligibility criteria only stipulate that a scribe should not possess qualifications higher than the minimum educational qualification prescribed for the examination and should at least be a matriculate. The petitioner contends that this enables graduates who have previously attempted the Civil Services Examination, as well as faculty members associated with UPSC coaching institutes, to qualify as scribes
