HC directs respondents to consider case of petitioner for the post of Assistant Prof

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SRINAGAR: Justice Wasim Sadiq Nargal, Judge High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, Srinagar has allowed the petition of Dr. Mushtaq Ahmad directing the official respondents to consider his case against the post of Assistant Professor non-medical in the Department of clinical Pharmacology by giving him the benefit of such appointment from the same date it has been given to respondent No 3, belonging to medical category, strictly in conformity with the directions passed by this court in SWP No 2523/2018 decided on 30-10-2018.
The respondents failed to comply with the directions of the earlier judgment by taking a stand that the petitioner could not make the grade as he could secure only 48 points in OM category as against the respondent No 3 who scored 70 points.
The petitioner again took up the case with the High Court giving further detail of the case and the court on the very first hearing restrained the respondents from finalizing the selection in pursuance of their subsequent advertisements dated 17-4-2021.
The Justice Wasim Sadiq Nargal after hearing the jAdvocate M. A Qayoom for the petitioner and Sajad Ashraf GA for R-1 and 2, Ser Adv Jehangir Iqbal Ganai , Mehnaz Rather, Adv and Asifa Padroo Adv for R-3 for respondents and also after going through the record held that the petitioner succeeds to make out his case in the instant petition.