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| Supreme Court refuses to vacate stay on KAS selection list | | |
New Delhi Aug-27- The Apex Court has refused to vacate stay order in case of Kashmir Administrative Service (KAS) petitioners and ordered to fix the case for the final hearing at the earliest.
The division of the Supreme Court comprising Justice Mr.C.K.Thakker and Justice Mr.Markandey Katju today refused to vacate the stay order in case of KAS petitioners. The Apex Court had earlier stayed the actual appointment of the candidates who were selected by the Jammu and Kashmir State Public Service Commission following a petition filed by some candidates through noted Supreme Court lawyer Prof Bhim Singh challenging the selection and the procedure adopted by the PSC
B S Billowria Advocate and Secretary State Legal Aid Committee in a handout released to press here today said that some selected candidates had filed applications before the Apex Court seeking vacation of the stay order which was refused by a division bench today.
Billowria said that Prof Bhim Singh appearing for Pankaj Sharma and others who have challenged the entire process as farce and fraud has urged the Apex Court to quash the entire selection which was just one man show of the chairman PSC Mohammed Shafi Pandit. He argued that two senior members of the Commission namely Dr B K Tikoo and Dr Jan had put their dissenting remarks rejecting the selection list prepared by the Chairman in July 2005 and maintained that both these members in their affidavits submitted that they were never consulted in the appointment of experts nor they were taken into confidence at the time of finalization of the result.
The handout further said that Justice Mr.Markandey Katju made a strong observation while reacting to the arguments raised by senior advocate on behalf of the State of Jammu and Kashmir that ‘The judges shall build the bridges, they shall construct the roads, the judges shall build the schools, the judges shall act as experts in holding examination for the technical jobs and judges shall do everything’. He remarked that this cannot be allowed that the judges crossed all the limits and the authority they have. The Supreme Court went to the extent to observe that they were prepared to quash the judgment of the single judge as not acceptable and that will affect the consequences that flow from the quashment, the handout added.
Advocate D K Garg, B S Billowria and Ritu Puri assisted Prof Singh in the Supreme Court.
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