Delhi judicial services (DJS) exam results late yet again, timeline uncertain

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Tuesday, 28 April 2015 By Prachi Shrivastava Bar, Bench & Litigation

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.

Comments

Onlooker 29 Apr 2015, 08:27

+11 -0

Prachi, the exam has not yet reached the viva-voce stage. The Delhi High Court has been super lax in releasing the results of the mains exam. Could LI possibly inquire about the reason behind this delay? Rumors are that a HC appointed committee is presently investigating some foul play involved during the declaration of the prelims exam shortlist. Apparently a judge strong armed the examiners to manipulate the marks of his kin, so he/she could get through to the next stage.

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 [s] Woodward and Bernstein[/s] Kian and Prachi style investigative journalism.

Guest 29 Apr 2015, 12:23

+5 -0

Delay and laches .. so much to say..

another onlooker 29 Apr 2015, 15:37

+2 -6

The rumour seems unplausible. The reason is that when such a things happens or is suspected an fir is launched since it is then an offence. As was done recently in Rajasthan. Commitee of hc cannot do such thing in such privacy. Nothing of such is in public domain. So it seems untrue. However the hc must be made answerable for such delay. They must be questioned.

Onlooker 29 Apr 2015, 17:57

+5 -1

IN RPSC's case, there was clear proof of misconduct. Considering that the reputation and career of a judge is at stake, the HC would want to ascertain the depth of the allegations before taking a concrete step such as filing a FIR. An in-house inquiry is usually the first step in cases like these. It is only upon the recommendations of the enquiry committee that the next step would be taken by the Delhi HC.

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.

Cowboy Bebop 3 May 2015, 18:29

+2 -0

FYI DJS mains results were announced last Friday.

Arnab Goswami 4 May 2015, 03:48

+3 -0

Yes, and as against the 86 vacancies that were notified, only 14 Candidates, who managed to pass, have been called for the interview. 660 Candidates wrote the Mains exams.The topper is the daughter of a High Court Judge. Seems much vancancies were notified so as not to attract bad PR, now they have put the blame on the candidates. HC has failed almost everyone, even the ones who wrote the mains last time and were amongst the toppers of Mains.

The way marks have been awarded to the topper raises much suspicion about the fairness of the process.

The administrative side of DHC sucks.

Arnab Goswami 4 May 2015, 03:51

And ofcourse the Nation wants to know, DHC. Especially the candidates whose abilities have been questioned. Judges from other states also wrote the Mains, and all of them failed.

Modi 4 May 2015, 04:06

+4 -0

There should be exams like these for the judges of the HC and the SC. Let's see how many of them manage to pass.

None 4 May 2015, 08:17

Out of the 14 called for interview, more than half are kids of judges of district courts and the high court.This is unacceptable.

Gumnaan 5 May 2015, 06:08

+1 -0

Kian there is a chance for you here to do an investigative story. You need to pursue it.

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