Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Nov 4: Division Bench of High Court has set aside the writ court judgment directing therein the Service Selection Board (SSB) to hold fresh interview for the posts of Draftsman in Public Works Department (PWD) advertised vide notification of the year 2007.
The SSB through its Chairman challenged the writ court judgment directing the Board to hold fresh interviews of the candidates applied for the posts of Draftsman Civil in PWD for Kashmir Division. It was in pursuant to advertisement notice dated 03.07.2007 issued by the J&K Service Selection Board, the aggrieved candidates applied for the post of Draftsman Civil and after due process of section, the select list was published on 08.12.2007 vide which 34 candidates were selected under the open merit category, however, the writ petitioner was not selected resulting into filing of petition before the court which came to be disposed of on Mach, 2008.
The J&K SSB as per the court directions supplied the information in respect of 34 selected candidates which revealed that the selected candidates were awarded marks in the viva-voce between 19.33 to 29 marks, whereas the writ petitioner was awarded 5.67 marks in the viva-voce out of 30 marks. Accordingly, the writ petitioner filed another petition seeking to quash the entire select list for the post in question and also to appoint him as Draftsman Civil with all consequential benefits.
The Division Bench of Justice Tashi Rabstan and Justice Rajesh Sekhri persued the affidavit filed by the Board which reveals that there were other candidates too who could not be selected but were given 48 or more points in the basic qualification.
The DB after having looked at the affidavit filed by the Board opined that it would be wrong to allege that the selection committee was biased towards the writ petitioner in accordance with less mark in viva voce. “Otherwise too, the select list was issued in December 2007 and now about sixteen years are going to elapse and certainly the new members have taken over the board. Therefore, at this stage it would not be in the fitness of things to allow the writ petitioner for fresh interview”, DB recorded
Court with these observations allowed the appeal of the Board and set aside the writ court judgment and dismissed the basic plea of the aggrieved candidate in which direction for fresh interview was passed by the writ court.
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