The Madhya Pradesh High Court has respondents are restrained from proceeding ahead with the recruitment process commenced of civil judge (entry level) examination 2022 (vide Advertisement No.113/ Examination/CJ/2022 dated 17.11.2022).
The Court has allowed the Review Petition filed by two aspirants challenging the cut off marks of preliminary examination result after the High Court upheld the criteria of eligibility – Law
Graduates under the Amended Recruitment Rules (prescribing minimum 70% marks in all the 10 Semesters in LL.B. without ATKT or in the alternative 3 years experience at the Bar.
A division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Amar Nath Kesharwani directed the respondents – the Registrar and the Registrar General and the Registrar (Examination Division) of High Court to weed out/exclude all those candidates from the list of candidates declared successful in Preliminary Examination held on 14.01.2024 who do not fulfill the eligibility criteria under the Amended Recruitment Rules.
After completing the aforesaid process, the cut-off marks shall be recomputed by applying the ratio of 1:10 vide Clause 7(2) of Advertisement No.113/Examination/ CJ/2022 dated 17.11.2022, upon the remaining candidates satisfying the criteria under Amended Recruitment Rules, the court order said.
Fresh call letters be issued to all those eligible candidates under Amended Recruitment Rules who have secured more or equal marks to the recomputed cut-off marks and whose names appear for the first time between the earlier cut-off marks and recomputed cut-off marks, for inviting them to appear in Main Examination, the court order said.
Only for the aforesaid category of eligible candidates who have secured marks between the earlier
cut-off marks and recomputed cut-off marks, fresh Main Examination be held, the court order said.
In case any ineligible candidates have already taken part in Main Examination, then such candidates be also weeded out/excluded from the result of Main Examination, the court order said.
Till the aforesaid process is completed, respondents are restrained from proceeding ahead with the recruitment process, the court order said of June 13, 2024.
