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.

 

Akashvani correspondent reports that the Jharkhand High Court has delivered a significant order, staying the state government’s decision to cancel appointments arising from the JSSC-CGL and Child Development Project Officer, or CDPO, examinations.

 

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.

 

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.