Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 3: High Court has stayed the process to select Lecturers of Physical Education initiated by the Technical Education/Youth Services Department pursuant to Notification No.09-PSC (DR-P) dated March 20, 2014.
The stay was granted in a petition filed by Jagdish Chander, who submitted that recommendations comprised in Government Order No. 252-HE of 2012 dated 30.05.2012 have not been incorporated in the relevant rules. As a result of which the marks obtained by the candidates in the written/ screening test have not been taken into consideration while preparing the select list.
“The Government order inter alia provides that marks obtained in the written/screening test have to be taken into consideration for making selection”, the counsel for the petitioner submitted, adding “the selection list published by the Public Service Commission (PSC) vide Notification 01-PSC(DR-S) of 2016 dated 02.02.2016 clearly shows that the same has been prepared in accordance with the Rule 51(v) of the Jammu and Kashmir PSC (Business and Procedure) Rules, 1980, which in its original form do not provide for giving weightage to the marks obtained in the written/screening test”.
After hearing Advocate Rahil Raja appearing for the petitioner, Justice Janak Raj Kotwal stayed the impugned selection process. “There is sufficient reason to believe that marks obtained by the candidates in written/screening test have not been taken into account as it was required to be done pursuant to Government order No. 252-HE of 2012”.
High Court also issued two weeks notice to State and others with the direction to file objections.
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