Imphal, January 05 2008: STRENGTHENING the belief that there had been some hanky-panky dealings in the recruitment of college lecturers by the Manipur Public Service Commission (MPSC), the Gauhati High Court, Imphal Bench today directed the MPSC not to issue appointment orders to three selected candidates for the post of lecturers of Computer Science.

In an interim injunction passed today by Justice T Nandakumar of Gauhati High Court Imphal Bench, the MPSC has been directed not to make effective the selection of the three candidates as lectureres of Computer Science, whose names were in the selection list as declared on December 15 .

Admitting a writ petition filed by one Dr Akoijam Ashakumar of Thoubal Nongangkhong challenging the selection of the three candidates as lecturers, Justice Nandakumar issued the interim injunction.

The order directed the MPSC to submit its answers within four weeks.

Advocate Kh Tarunkumar, who was the counsel for the petitioner, observed in the court that the notification for recruiting some posts of lecturers of different subjects in government colleges, was published on December 30 of 2006.The notification included six vacant posts of lecturers for Computer Science.

According to the notification of the MPSC, the eligible educational qualifications of the candidates for taking part in the recruitment examinations were MA/MSc with 55% of marks in the relevant subjects and also should have passed National Elegibility Test (NET) or GRF or should hold M Phil or PhD.

The MPSC declared the result of the recruitment examinations on December 15, 2008.In the list of selected candidates, names of three candidates were found in the unreserved category for Computer Science.

Counsel for the petitioner argued that the three candidates selected by the MPSC as lecturers for Computer Science did not possess the requisite qualifications for candidature as announced in the advertisement issued by the MPSC.

Therefore, their selection should not be valid, the Counsel argued on behalf of the petitioner.

Counsel Tarunkumar further argued that the first among the three candidates selected as lecturers for Computer Science, Ambika Yengkokpam has not obtained an MPhil or PhD or NET or JRF, therefore she is not a qualified candiate.

The second candidate, Anand Yendrembam had not submitted his dissertation for PhD to the Manipur University till the last date of submitting form for the examination.

The counsel maintained that there are strong suspicions that the third candiate also would not have been a qualified candidate.

It may be recalled here that the MPSC issued an advertisement on October 18, 2006 calling applications for the post of 186 lecturers in government colleges.

The last date for submitting application forms was Novermber 30 the same year.

And advertisement of MPSC calling applications from candidates for the post of lecturers of Home Science, Computer Science and Economics was published on December 30, 2006 and last date for form submission was March 19, 2007 .

AMSU and DESAM had alleged a few weeks back that the examination conducted by MPSC for recruiting college lecturers was done in the interest of certain influential and powerful persons, and was conducted under heavy under-hand dealings.

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