Candidate has no right to challenge action whereby an advertisement notification has been withdrawn or posts have been re-advertised: HC

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JAMMU: Justice Sanjay Dhar of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High held that candidate has no right to challenge the action of the State or any other authority whereby an advertisement notification has been withdrawn or the posts have been re-advertised. In the instant case, the petitioners were not even selected.
Their certificates were only under the process of verification when the selection process was abandoned by the respondents. Therefore, they had not acquired any vested right to be appointed as Grameen Dak Sewaks pursuant to the advertisement notice issued for the purpose.
The respondents were well within right to abandon the process of selection and they had a good reason for doing so, as the competent authority had decided to stop the engagement of Grameen Dak Sewaks and instead it was decided that selection of all categories of Grameen Dak Sewaks shall be held through online mode. Therefore, there was a plausible reason for the respondents to abandon the selection process at a stage when neither any final select list was prepared nor any appointment orders had been issued in favour of the petitioners. Thus, the impugned action of the respondents does not suffer from any illegality.
With these observations, High Court dismissed the petition as no merit found in the petition.
This significant order has been passed in a petition filed by Altaf Hussain and Roshan Lal challenged the action of the respondents, whereby they have cancelled the advertisement notification No. Ed-715/GNR dated February 10, 2016. It appears that respondent No. 2 had issued the advertisement notification dated February 10, 2016 (supra) inviting applications for the posts of Grameen Dak Sewaks for various branch offices of the Post Offices.