Denial of appointment to recommended candidate
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 25: A bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justice L Nageshwara Rao and Justice Hemant Gupta has dismissed the Special Leave Petition (SLP) filed by University of Jammu against the judgment of the Division Bench of J&K High Court which had upheld the judgment passed by the Single Judge.
The Single Judge had allowed the writ petition filed by Priyanka Arya, wife of Dr Satyapriya Arya of Rohini, New Delhi, who despite recommendations in her favour by the Selection Committee had been denied appointment by the Jammu University for the post of Assistant Professor in the Department of Sanskrit under Open Merit Category. Instead of appointing her the Jammu University had re-advertised the post vide Advertisement Notice No.Adm/TW/ C&R/17/2053-73 dated November, 30, 2017 without finalizing the selection process earlier initiated vide Advertisement Notice No.Adm/TW (C&R)/16/1642-92 dated April, 18, 2016 in which Priyanka Arya was a candidate and was shown at S.No.1 in the merit list.
The writ court had further quashed re-advertisement Notice dated November 30, 2017 and had directed the Jammu University that there is no requirement to fill up the same post for which recommendations had already been made in favour of Priyanka Arya. The writ court had further directed Jammu University to act upon the recommendations made by the Selection Committee in accordance with law.
After hearing the counsel for Jammu University, the bench of the Apex Court did not find any merit in the SLP preferred by the University of Jammu and dismissed the same in limini. “There is no ground in the SLP warranting interference and the same is accordingly dismissed”, the Supreme Court said.
With the dismissal of the SLP by the Apex Court the desks are cleared for the appointment of Priyanka Arya against the post of Assistant Professor in the Department of Sanskrit, University of Jammu.
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