Pioneer News Service
Ranchi
The Jharkhand High Court today while hearing multiple petitions challenging the state government’s orders to cancel and stay various recruitment processes conducted by the Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC), refused to stay the government’s order.
Challenging the state government’s decision to cancel the recruitment process for Assistant Director and Senior Scientific Officer posts under JPSC Advertisement No. 10/2025 (Backlog) for the State Forensic Science Laboratory (SFSL). The case was heard by Justice Deepak Roshan’s bench.
The court has currently refused to stay the government’s order cancelling the recruitment process and directed the state government to file its response. The next hearing will take place on September 24. The petition was filed by Munindra Prakash.
Justice Deepak Roshan’s bench has sought responses from both the state government and the JPSC. The petitioners were represented by advocates Indrajit Sinha and Anurag Kashyap, while advocate Sanjay Piprawal represented the JPSC.
The petitioner’s counsel argued that there was no question of any irregularity in the recruitment process, questioning the validity of the grounds cited by the state government for the cancellation. It was contended that scrapping an entire recruitment process merely on the mention of irregularities is unjustified.
Separately, a hearing took place on a petition urging the court to quash the notification issued by the state government staying the recruitment process for the Assistant Public Prosecutor Regular and Backlog examinations. The court also refused to stay the government’s order in this matter.
The examinations whose recruitment stay has been challenged include the Assistant Public Prosecutor Regular Examination (Advertisement No. 6/2025) and the Assistant Public Prosecutor Backlog Examination (Advertisement No. 5/2025). The petition was filed by Alok Ranjan, Aditya Bhaskar, Anand Singh, and Anirudh Ojha.
Notably, based on facts obtained during a CID investigation, the state government had announced the cancellation of all examinations involving TDPL. Additionally, it was announced that all recruitment examinations held since 2014 would be probed for potential irregularities.
In light of these announcements, the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms issued notifications relating to canceling examinations, staying recruitment processes, and ordering investigations. This includes the cancellation of 22 examinations, staying the process of 6 examinations, and placing 17 examinations under the scope of investigation.
