Jharkhand HC stays cancellation of JSSC-CGL, CDPO appointments

The Jharkhand High Court has imposed an interim stay on the state government’s order cancelling appointments arising from the JSSC-CGL and CDPO examinations. Justice Deepak Roshan’s court has sought responses from the state government and the JPSC in the matter. Hearing petitions challenging the government’s decision, Justice Deepak Roshan’s court directed the state government and the JPSC to file detailed responses by September 7th. The petitioners argued before the court that the government’s decision to abruptly cancel the advertisements and appointments was not in accordance with the prescribed rules.   According to Amritansh Vats, lawyer for petitioners,The High Court viewed that The state government cannot cancel any appointment abruptly in one stroke of a pen. The law is very well settled that for passing any order against any of the employees, the due process of the law has to be followed,

#WATCH | Ranchi: Amritansh Vats, lawyer for petitioners, says, "Today, the Jharkhand High Court has stayed the government order with respect to the CGL and also with respect to the CDPL examination... Yesterday, the matter was heard with respect to the 11 to 13 JPSC and also the… https://t.co/ES8320TBcA pic.twitter.com/tdmjbb39iN

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The court has scheduled the next hearing in the matter for September 15th. The High Court had, a day earlier, also imposed an interim stay on the state government’s order cancelling JPSC appointments. Student organisations, which had staged a 26-day agitation demanding cancellation of the examinations, have alleged that the government issued the decision without proper legal consultation and that the order could not withstand judicial scrutiny. The organisations have described the development as a breach of the government’s assurances to lakhs of young aspirants in the state and have announced statewide protests today. It may be recalled that, following the students’ agitation, the state government had recently issued a notification cancelling 22 examinations and ordering investigations into several others. The government’s decisions are now being challenged before the High Court.

Meanwhile, Student leader Ravindra Paswan on Thursday accused the Jharkhand government of backtracking on its assurances to protesting students after the Jharkhand High Court stayed the state government’s order cancelling the 11th to 13th JPSC examinations and appointments.He alleged that the advocate representing the state government did not make any submission before the court and accused the government of attempting to end the students’ protest by cancelling the examinations while allowing the appointments to continue.