COURT PUTS SANSKRIT UNIV APPOINTMENT ON HOLD

The Rajasthan high court on Thursday directed that the appointment of class IV employee by Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Rajasthan Sanskrit University (JRRSU) be kept in abeyance.

“Hearing a petition filed by one of the candidates rejected during the selection process, justice Veerender Singh Siradhana directed that the order of appointment shall be kept in abeyance,” said Tanveer Ahmed, advocate for the petitioner.

On January 16, the same bench of the high court, Jaipur, had granted a stay on the recruitment by JRRSU after hearing another petition about anomalies.

The appointment of Suresh Yadav as a class IV employee by JRRSU had stirred a controversy with MLA Narpat Sigh Rajvi writing to Governor Kalyan Singh and the IG, anti-corruption bureau (ACB). In a letter to the ACB on January 17, Rajvi demanded that an FIR be registered against the university officials for gross anomalies in the recruitment process.

“In a letter to the Governor on January 15 itself, I had mentioned that the entire recruitment process was a sham and I have been told that one particular candidate Suresh Yadav was going to be selected,” Rajvi said in the letter.

“The same candidate was appointed on January 16 and the entire process of going through the interview performance of 62 candidates and the selection and appointment of a particular candidate was completed in six hours.”

The letter mentions that despite a stay granted at 12.40 pm on January 16 and the lawyer for the petitioner sending a copy of the judgment to the university officials by 3 pm, the university carried out the formal appointment process at 5.30 pm. HTC

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