The Delhi lower judicial service (DJS) exam is once again on a schedule delayed by several months after the release date for of final result in its June 2014 round remains uncertain.
The DJS, which according to a 2011 judgment of the Supreme Court must be conducted bi-annually, began its most recent examination rounds on 1 June 2014 after 80 district and sessions judge vacancies arose in Delhi.
The DJS has three rounds – the written preliminary test, the written main test and the viva voce. The preliminary round was organised on 1 June and the written main exam was organised on 10 and 11 October 2014, after the results of the preliminary round were announced on 8 July.
Since then the Delhi high court has not released results for the DJS 2014. The Delhi high court’s registrar general Vinod Goel was not reachable for comment by phone and messages.
Several DJS aspirants have told Legally India that the result of the exam, which is currently in the viva voce stage, was expected in a few days.
The DJS 2011, through which subordinate judge vacancies were last filled in Delhi, was executed in one-and-a-half years.
The lower judiciary recruited at 18.4 per cent of Delhi’s actual requirement in 2013, from the DJS 2011 merit list, leading to a theoretical figure of 586 vacancies for this year.
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The rumor appears well founded when you consider the following facts:
. A seven month time period has elapsed since the mains exam.
. Only around 2600 answer scripts (659 candidates shortlisted after prelims had to appear for 4 papers at the mains stage) have to be evaluated.
.The answer scripts will be evaluated by external examiners and not by the extremely busy Delhi HC or District judges.
. The other recruiting agencies- for instance, the public service commissions (UPSC and State PSCs) which handle much more volume usually take no more than 3-4 months for declaring the results of the descriptive exam stage. The UPSC declared the results of CSE 14 mains, where more than 153000 scripts had to be evaluated, in less than 4 months. (This timeline includes a stay put on the results by the Supreme Court for deciding on the validity of including the Jat community in the OBC quota)
I can give more reasons for LI to do a full fledged story on this issue. I think the curious case of missing DJS results merits some
Woodward and BernsteinKian and Prachi style investigative journalism.Also making things public at this stage would lead to two undesirable consequences: a) Generate bad PR for the HC and b) Provide leverage to the Central Executive for pushing the case of NJAC.
The way marks have been awarded to the topper raises much suspicion about the fairness of the process.
The administrative side of DHC sucks.
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