HC dismisses petition of KCS aspirants as ‘withdrawn’

The High Court on Monday dismissed a plea seeking directions to Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission for putting off KCS (Judicial) mains examination scheduled to be held from March 23.

A bench of Justice Tashi Rabstan dismissedthe petition by 153 candidates as “withdrawn” after hearing their counsel,Altaf Mehraj.

   

In response to the submission by thepetitioners’ counsel that the PSC be directed to consider the representationthey have made to it, the court said it was not inclined to pass any orderdirecting the commission to consider the representation.

Following the submission by the petitioners’counsel that he may be permitted to withdraw the writ petition with liberty topursue the representation before the commission, the court took on recordMehraj’s statement with liberty as prayed for.

The petitioners were seeking directions toPSC to reconsider its decision on deferment of the KCS (Judicial) mainsexamination scheduled to be held from March 23.

They were also seeking directions forrescheduling the KCS examinations.

” Most of the remote places of the valleyare still disconnected from the mainland due to closure of various passesresulted due to the heavy snowfall as such many candidates who have been heldto have qualified for the mains examination are set to miss the examination” thepetitioners pleaded.

They submitted that in the wake of thesuicide attack on the forces on February 14, the rising attacks upon thestudents including some of the petitioners who had undertaken admission invarious coaching institutes outside Kashmir for mains examination had to returnhome in view of the threat to their life.

Some of them, the petitioners said had toreturn to their homes leaving midway the coaching and the preparation forundertaking the mains examination.

The PSC had issued an advertisementnotification- PSC/Exam/2018/39 dated 30/05/2018- in terms of which theapplications were invited for filling up the vacant posts of Civil Judge(JuniorDivision)/Munsiffs in the Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Department.

After taking part in the preliminaryscreening test, the petitioners were declared successful by the PSC and wereaccordingly declared to have qualified for the admission to the Jammu and KCS(Judicial) mains examination 2018.

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