Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 8: Coming down heavily on a dismissed police aspirant who failed to meet the cut-off marks, the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has rejected an intra-court appeal, calling the plea meritless and untenable in law.
A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Arun Palli and Justice Rajnesh Oswal, while hearing, upheld the earlier decision of the writ court that had dismissed the petition filed by Mohammad Younas, a resident of Doda, for not meeting the minimum qualifying marks in the 2010 J&K Police constable recruitment.
The appellant, represented by Advocate Anil Sethi, had obtained only 22 marks, whereas the cut-off for the RBA category was 24, and 25 for the general category. Despite this, he challenged the recruitment process, alleging lack of transparency in vacancy disclosure and category-wise breakup.
However, the Court noted that all 160 posts, including 32 under RBA (Open, SPO, and VHG), had already been filled as per official records. The State, represented by Saggira Jaffer, assisting Senior Additional Advocate General Monika Kohli, placed affidavits and vacancy matrices confirming compliance with recruitment norms.
The Division Bench observed that the appellant, after voluntarily participating in the recruitment process and failing to qualify, could not be allowed to question the rules post-result. It further held that merit cannot be compromised by speculative litigation, especially when all selection protocols were followed.
Calling the appeal devoid of substance, the Bench remarked that the learned Single Judge had rightly “put the controversy to quietus”, and found no reason to interfere.
With these observations, the Dvision Bench dismissed the appeal along with connected applications, closing the door on what it called a baseless challenge rooted in personal disappointment. (JNF) |
