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| DB strikes down postal recruitment cancellation | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 19: A Division Bench of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court at Jammu comprising Chief Justice Arun Palli and Justice Rajnesh Oswal has quashed the cancellation of a Gramin Dak Sevak (GDS) recruitment process and directed the Department of Posts to issue appointment offers to two candidates, holding that cancelling a nearly concluded selection merely on the plea of shifting to online recruitment was arbitrary. A Division Bench of Chief Justice Arun Palli and Justice Rajnesh Oswal, in LPA No. 177/2024, allowed the appeal filed by Altaf Hussain and another against the Union of India and others, setting aside the cancellation notification dated 28.10.2017 which had scrapped Advertisement Notification No. Ed/715/GNR dated 10.02.2016 for GDS posts.
The Court noted that one of the appellants had reached the final stage of selection—being asked to submit a Computer Literacy Certificate and facing verification—when the selection was halted after a Postal Directorate communication dated 01.08.2016, citing a proposal to shift to online recruitment.
However, the Bench found the cancellation unjustified after it emerged that the Postal Directorate later permitted manual selection in the J&K Circle and that a fresh advertisement was issued on 05.06.2018 without adopting online mode, contradicting the very reason cited for scrapping the earlier process.
Terming the action as manifestly arbitrary, the High Court quashed the cancellation and directed the Department to offer appointment to Appellant No.1 against any one of four vacant GDS posts (as per his option), and thereafter to consider Appellant No.2 against the remaining vacancies, subject to completion of formalities. (JNF) |
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