Don't declare results of new test : HC
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, October 07 2016:
A single bench of Justice N Kotiswor Singh, High Court (HC) of Manipur has today deferred the date for ‘consideration of passing the interim relief’ in connection with the petition filed by the candidates of the All Manipur DPC Completed Candidates of Police Constable (Male) 2013 .
The HC also issued directive to the State not to declare the final result of the new recruitment process unless an interim order is passed in connection with the petition.
The HC on September 16 hearing fixed October 7 as the next date for the hearing of the case to discuss the interim relief sought by the petitioners while issuing notice to file counter affidavits within October 3 .
However, today the HC had to defer the hearing to October 21 following the failure of the State Government to file their counter affidavit within the stipulated time.
Advocate General, Th Ibohal, representing the State today pleaded with the Court to give more time as certain process to compile and gather necessary information to file the counter affidavit could not be completed and assured to file the same on October 17.The counsel of the petitioners however objected on the ground that sufficient time had been granted to the State respondents and as such insisted that their interim prayer may be considered today.
The counsel of the petitioners also submitted that merely owing to certain irregularities, the entire process should not be cancelled as those candidates who had not been a party to any such irregularities could not be made to suffer.
Moreover, the petitioner’s counsel Hemchandra also filed an additional affidavit seeking to know the marks of the PET, written examination and viva-voce and any other irregularities found with the recruitment process of 2000 Constables in 2013 .
The Committee was required to submit its findings to Home Department on or before October 4.In response, the AG divulged that the authority is in their final stage of preparing the counter affidavit.
Informing the Court that the PET is yet to be completed and the written test is yet to be held, he said that there was no question of completing the recruitment process so as to cause any prejudice to the writ petitioners.
N Ibotombi, Additional AG also assured the Court that the final result would not be declared until an interim order is considered.
Altogether seven separate petitions were filed by the candidates of the All Manipur Written Test Successful Candidates of PoliceConstable (Male) 2013 challenging the order of the Police Department that cancelled the DPC for the recruitment process.
In addition two caveat petitions were also filed by the candidates of the new recruitment process.