KCS judicial exam aspirants on Thursday demanded postponement of main examination which is scheduled to commence from March 23.
Aspirants said process ofexamination was challenged in Jammu wing of High Court and the court held thatthe selection process is subject to the outcome of the writ petition. The courthas already sent a notice to JKPSC to file objection to the issues raised bythe petitioners.
“JKPSC has changed the rules of the examination in themiddle which is against the Supreme Court judgments. JKPSC in its date sheetnotification for main examination dated 29-12-2018 made no mention of thequestion paper-cum answer books where as a separate notification dated01.02.2019 whereby it has been decided that the question paper-cum answer booksshall as far as practicable be used henceforth for the competitiveexaminations. The aspirants came to know of this change in the rule by theInstructions on the Admit cards issued in March,” local news agency KNS quotedaspirants as having said.
The aspirants maintained that JKPSC is pushing them into adepression hole. “We have prepared in accordance with the earlier examinationpattern. In the earlier pattern a candidate was not bound to write in a limitedspace and continuation answer sheets were provided. It is a natural principlethat a new rule has a prospective effect and not a retrospective effect. Givingthe rule retrospective effect is ultra-vire and is challenged in the court oflaw”, said another aspirant.
Meanwhile, controller ofexamination, JKPSC, Shabir Hussain Keen said, “We will file objections in HCand prove the fairness of the selection process there. As of now there will beno deferment in the already notified dates for the examination and theaspirants should instead focus on their studies.”