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HC stays selection process of House Surgeons in Jammu Dental College 8/12/2016 11:14:30 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Aug 12: High court judge Dhiraj Singh Thakur today stayed the selection process of House Surgeons in Dental College, Jammu. The counsel for the petitioner submitted that the latter had secured 79.4 marks in the discipline of Oral Medicine and Radiology but Shalija Malhotra with 78.4 marks had been selected and his merit was ignored. It is stated that Oral Medicine and Radiology was her second preference. With regard to the discipline of pedodontics, which was her third preference, she had secured 79.3 marks whereas selected candidates -- Komal Sharma and Rehana Tabassum -- had secured 77.5 and 75.5 marks respectively. The counsel for the respondents stated that Shalija Malhotra was selected over the petitioner even when she had secured less merit than the petitioner on the ground that she had reflected her first preference as Oral Medicine and Radiology as against the petitioner who had reflected the same as her second preference. Similarly, respondents No 19 and 20 were selected over the petitioner in the discipline of Pedodontics which was their first preference and the petitioner's third. Justice Thakur, after hearing the two sides, observed that it appeared as if the official respondents had misunderstood and mis-applied advertisement notification dated May 20, 2016, whereunder the selection had to be made on the basis of merit, rank and preference. "Official respondents appear to have given more weightage to the preference than the merit while making the selection in which the petitioner was even more meritorious than the selected candidates in the aforementioned two disciplines," he observed. He said prima facie, a case was made out by the petitioner for interference and ordered that process of selection of House Surgeons in Dental College, Jammu, initiated pursuant to notification dated May 20, 2016, would remain stayed. (JNF)   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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