Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Oct 14: The High Court has observed that the concept of Permanent Resident Certificate (PRC) in Jammu and Kashmir has ceased to exist after coming into force of Re-Organization Act and people are now entitled to Domicile Certificate.
These observations were made by the Division Bench of Justice Sanjeev Kumar and Justice Mohan Lal in a batch of appeals whereby issuance of PRC for the post of Rehbar-e-Taleem (ReT) was taken into consideration.
The DB while settling all the issues in all these cases in a common judgment took a judicial note of the fact that with the coming into force of the J&K Reorganization Act, 2019, the concept of PRC in UT of Jammu and Kashmir has ceased to exist.
“We make it clear that, notwithstanding the quashing of certain Government Orders, and cancellation of 2nd PRCs of candidate in fray and his sister, they shall be free and entitled to obtain Domicile Certificates, if not already obtained, from the Competent Authority on fulfilment of requisite formalities and meeting the required eligibility conditions”, the DB mentioned.
The two candidates were in litigation for the post of ReT for Upper Primary School in Masri. On the basis of eligibility and merit, the Zonal Education Officer, Doda prepared and displayed a tentative list of candidates to be engaged as ReTs in UPS, Masri under SSA Scheme in order to fill the post.
Since the list was subject to objections, as such, the aggrieved candidate filed written objections to the engagement of other candidate and brought it to the notice of the Authorities concerned that he was actually the resident of village Trown and had, by suppression of material facts, obtained another PRC for village Masri much after the cut-off date mentioned in the Advertisement Notification.
The aggrieved candidate filed an application before Deputy Commissioner, Doda seeking his indulgence to verify the authenticity and genuineness of PRC certificate and RBA certificate issued by the Tehsildar, Doda in favour of the selected candidate.
The inquiry found that the selected candidate had obtained the second PRC of village Masri by fraudulent means. It was later cancelled and a case for cheating against the said person was ordered and it was directed that his appointment be cancelled.
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