:Telangana Judiciary Exam Eligibility Criteria 2025: Age Limit & Qualification

Telangana High Court released the official notification of the Telangana Judicial services to fill 87 vacancies in the Civil Judge cadre, out of which 70 are to be filled through direct recruitment and 17 by transfer.

Candidates applying for the exam must go through the detailed Telangana Judiciary Exam Eligibility Criteria 2025.

In this post, candidates will get complete details about the required educational qualification, age limit, nationality, and more about the upcoming Telangana Judiciary exam.

Before filling out the online form, candidates must check whether they meet the Telangana Judicial Services Eligibility. Candidates who do not meet the eligibility are not eligible to apply for the Telangana Judiciary Exam 2025.

• Per the notification, candidates should have attained 23 years of age and not exceed 26 years of age as of 01 July 2025 to apply for the exam.
• According to the Judiciary Exam Eligibility, the candidates must be a citizen of India.
• A candidate applying for the exam under direct recruitment must hold a Law degree from any recognized university in India and have practised as an advocate for 3 years.
• Aspirants applying under the recruitment by transfer must hold a law degree from a recognized university and should not exceed 48 years of age.
• This post provides complete details regarding Telangana Judiciary Exam Eligibility Criteria for direct and transfers recruitment.

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Telangana Judiciary Eligibility: Age Limit & Age Relaxation

According to the Telangana Judiciary Age Limit, candidates aged between 23-26 years as of 01 July 2020 are eligible to apply under Telangana Judiciary direct recruitment. In contrast, the candidate's age should not exceed 48 years as on 01 July 2020, applying under recruitment by transfer.

• For physically handicapped students whose upper age limit is 35 years is relaxable by 10 years as per the Telangana State Judicial (Service & Cadre) Rules, 2017.
• In the Telangana Judiciary Direct Recruitment, candidates are excluded from determining the age if they are served in the defence services of the Indian union and who is otherwise qualified and suitable, the period of service rendered by them in the defence service.

Telangana Judiciary Eligibility: Educational Qualification 

The candidates must hold a degree in Law from a recognized university in India and must have experience of 3 years as an advocate to apply for the Telangana Judiciary under Direct Recruitment.

Candidates applying through recruitment by transfer must possess a Law degree from any recognized university established by Law in India or an institution recognized by the University Grants Commission as per the Telangana Judiciary Qualification.

Telangana Judiciary Eligibility: Nationality

According to the TS Judicial Services Eligibility, a candidate must be a citizen of India and read and write the Telugu language to apply for the post of Civil Judge.

As per the notification, candidates who are not a citizen of India are not eligible to apply for the Telangana Judicial Services Exam.

Telangana Judiciary Direct Recruitment Eligibility 2025

Candidates applying for the post of Civil Judge through direct recruitment can go through the details about TS Judiciary Eligibility Criteria here.

Telangana Judiciary Eligibility - Age Limit

Candidates in the OC category should have obtained 25 years of age and not exceeded 35 years. Candidates belonging to SC, ST, socially and educationally backward classes must not have exceeded 40 years of age as on 01 July 2025.

Telangana Judiciary Eligibility - Educational Qualification

Candidates must possess a degree of Law from any recognized university in India established or incorporated by or under a Central Act or State Act, or an Institution recognized by the University Grants Commission and enrolled in the Bar Council of any other state.

• The candidate must have been practising as an advocate for more than 3 years on the date of notification.
• The candidate must be a law graduate and have secured a minimum of 60% marks, which is 55% for reserved category candidates. They must have obtained a Degree in Law within 3 years before the date of Notification.
• Under the category of fresh law graduates, a person who has enrolled as an advocate but does not have 3 years of practice would be eligible to appear in the recruitment for the post of Civil Judge.
• A candidate must have good character to qualify for the Civil Judge post.

Telangana Judiciary Eligibility - Nationality

According to the Telangana Judiciary Exam Eligibility, the candidate must be a citizen of India to apply for the post of Civil Judge.

• Candidates are not eligible if they are dismissed from service by any High Court, Government, and Statutory or Local Authority.
• Also, candidates having more than one living spouse, convicted of an offence involving moral turpitude, directly or indirectly influence the recruitment authority by any means of their candidature, marries knowing a person having a spouse, or have been permanently debarred by the High Court or Union Public Service Commission or any State Public Service Commission or any other recruiting authority are not eligible to appear for the upcoming exam.
• All the eligible candidates applying for the post of Civil Judge must be able to read and write the Telugu language.

Telangana Judiciary Recruitment by Transfer Eligibility 2025

Here is the detailed TS Judiciary Exam Eligibility for candidates applying for the post of Civil Judge through recruitment by transfer.

Telangana Judiciary Eligibility - Age Limit

As per the Telangana Judicial Services Eligibility, a candidate should not exceed 40 years of age as on 01 July 2020 for selection to the Civil Judge post.

Telangana Judiciary Eligibility - Educational Qualification

Candidates must possess a degree of Law from any recognized university in India established or incorporated by or under a Central Act or State Act or an Institution recognized by the University Grants Commission and enrolled in the Bar Council of India.

• A person who is facing disciplinary proceedings/criminal proceedings or under suspension from service or has undergone any punishment or is undergoing punishment for any irregularity in the discharge of his/her duties shall be eligible for appointment by recruitment by transfer

To apply for the post, a person must maintain good character and conduct in complete service.

Telangana Judiciary Eligibility - Nationality

• The candidate must be a citizen of India to apply for the post of Civil Judge.
• Candidates are not eligible if they are dismissed from service by any High Court, Government, and Statutory or Local Authority.
• Also, candidates having more than one living spouse, convicted of an offence involving moral turpitude, directly or indirectly influence the recruitment authority by any means of their candidature, marries knowing a person having a spouse, or have been permanently debarred by the High Court or Union Public Service Commission or any State Public Service Commission or any other recruiting authority are not eligible to appear for the upcoming exam.
• All the eligible candidates applying for the post of Civil Judge must be able to read and write the Telugu language.

Eligible Candidates to Apply under Recruitment by Transfer 2025

Let us look at the following category of candidates eligible to apply for the post of Civil Judge under the recruitment by transfer.

• Section Officers, court officers, scrutiny officers, accounts officers, court masters, personal secretaries to honourable judges, personal secretaries to registrars, translators and deputy section officers, overseers, assistant section officers, computer operators, assistant librarians, U.D. stenos, assistants, readers and examiners, telex operator, telephone operator, typists and copyists of the High Court for the State of Telangana, Hyderabad.
• Chief Administrative Officers, Senior Superintendents, Superintendents, Stenographers Grade - I, II, & III, senior assistants, junior assistants, and typists of the judicial ministerial service of the State of Telangana.
• Assistant public prosecutors, senior assistant public prosecutors, additional public prosecutors, additional public prosecutors Grade-II, of prosecution services of the State of Telangana.
• Section officers in the law department of the Secretariat of the State of Telangana.
• Section officers in the legislative department of the State of Telangana.
• Managers of the advocate general offices, government leaders, and public prosecutors of the State of Telangana are also eligible to apply through recruitment by transfer as per the Telangana Judiciary Exam Eligibility. 

Telangana Judiciary Application Form 2025

The Telangana High Court released the Telangana Judiciary Application Form on the official website. All the candidates are advised to fill out the online form before the last date.

• Before proceeding with the application form, read all the instructions carefully. Fields marked with * are mandatory to be filled by the candidates.
• Telangana PCS J Application form contains two parts: Part A and Part B. Candidates must fill both parts to apply for the Civil Judge post.
• Candidates must note that the application form completes only after filling in Parts A and B.
• Make sure to meet the Telangana Judiciary Exam Eligibility Criteria before proceeding with the online application form.

Telangana Judiciary Vacancy 2025

This year, 87 vacancies have been released to recruit eligible candidates for the post of Civil Judge in the Telangana High Court.

• As per the Telangana Judiciary Vacancy, there are a total of 70 vacancies under direct recruitment and 17 vacancies under recruitment by transfer.
• In direct recruitment, 26 posts are reserved for women, whereas 02 are under recruitment by transfer.