Don’t finalise selection result of art and craft teachers: High Court

Chandigarh, March 19

The Punjab and Haryana High Court today stayed the finalisation of the result of the posts of art and craft teacher in Haryana. The direction by the Bench of Justice Rajan Gupta and Justice Karamjit Singh came on an appeal filed by the applicants for the posts in the general, BC-A and BC-B categories.

“It is directed that the result pursuant to the selection process, which is underway, shall not be finalised till then. It is further directed that in case the interview process is still going on, the appellants be provisionally interviewed. However, their result be kept in a sealed cover....” the Bench asserted.

The direction came on an appeal filed against the Haryana Staff Selection Commission and other respondents by Virender Singh and other appellants through counsel Ravinder Malik Ravi. The appeal was preferred against the order passed by a Single Judge on March 17, whereby the interim prayer of the appellants to appear for the interview provisionally was declined on the ground that they had not scored the minimum qualifying marks, as per the criteria fixed in the examination notice.

Ravi, however, referred to another order passed in a petition by a coordinate Bench, wherein the candidates were allowed to appear provisionally for the interview with a further direction that their result would be kept in a sealed cover.

The counsel stated that the conflicting orders passed by two Benches were likely to create an anomalous situation. — TNS