Srinagar: None among the 217 candidate have qualified in the written examination for direct recruitment of District Judges to Jammu and Kashmir higher judicial service, Bar and Bench reported.
The Bar and Bench report referred to a notification issued by the Registrar General of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
“None secured the qualifying marks of 96 for general category and 80 for reserved category. For SC and ST candidates minimum qualifying mrks were fixed at 50 per cent, it was 60 per cent for unreserved category.
“None of them qualified while two secured a score of 0,” report reads.
“A senior judicial official told Bar & Bench that this was the fifth such instance of even a single lawyer failing to qualify the exam, ” it reads.
The report further reads: “The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh had issued a notification on November 11, 2018 calling for applications from practicing advocates, pleaders, assistant public prosecutors and civil judges as well as senior civil judges aged between 35 and 48 years, and with a work experience of more than seven years, for direct recruitment to the post of seven District Judges.”
“The selection was to be made through three successive stages with the first being a preliminary examination followed by a main examination and then a viva voce.”
read B&Bs report here:
https://www.barandbench.com/news/none-of-217-candidates-clear-district-judge-recruitment-exam-jammu-kashmir-higher-judicial-service
