The Delhi subordinate judiciary recruited at 17.5 per cent of its actual requirement of 80 new judges this year, dipping lower than its last recorded recruitment rate, after only 2 per cent of the candidates who appeared for its final examination passed it.
Only 14 out of 549 general category candidates who sat the Delhi Judicial Service (DJS) main exam in October 2014, obtained over 50 per cent marks in the written and oral exam – attaining passing marks for recruitment to Delhi’s lower judicial services, according to results declared by the Delhi high court on Friday.
One candidate also qualified the exam which was attempted by 97 candidates from the scheduled category.
Full list of those qualified:
- Vasundhara Azad
- Upasana Satija
- T Priyadarshini
- Paridhi Gupta
- Priyanka Rajpoot
- Puneet Nagpal
- Nupur Gupta
- Prigya Verma
- Mridul Gupta
- Harshita Vatsayan
- Samiksha Gupta
- Niharika Kumar
- Shriya Gauba
- Tanya Khanna
- Mohit Sharma
The DJS, which according to a 2011 judgment of the Supreme Court must be conducted bi-annually, began the current examination rounds on 1 June 2014 after 80 district and sessions judge vacancies arose in Delhi. 11,545 candidates, including general and special category, sat the June 2014 round.
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.
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These was the result for the Mains Examinations (Written). Fifteen people mentioned here got an interview call. They have not been finally selected for being a judge.
The HC, which at the first place did not want to recruit as many as 80 judges has put the blame on the candidates. The Examination reeks of favouritism and irregularities, more than half of these 15 candidates are daughters / son of judges of the HC and the District Courts.
The topper is a daughter of a sitting Judge of DHC. It seems they are running a private club. I wonder what was so unusual this time that all the candidates failed to pass (almost).
Failed to pass.
Hmm.
Failed to pass.
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All the candidates (almost).
Thank you.
Most of these are girls.
+++++[quote name="Delhi Advocate"]Guys, just a suggestion. Never ever think to go for state judiciary. I am telling this with my experience.[/quote]
Why do you say so boss?
Hardly any of these guys work from 2 to 4. few cases. sit in your room in AC. do your job early. pass judgments. over.
Go home in a chauffered car. evening free. weekend free. live the next 40 years in the heart/ better part of the city.
What is wrong with that ?
For the DJS, 2014 examination a number of sitting judges, e.g many sitting judges from Haryana, and almost 30 sitting judges from all over India applied for it. One candidate, namely Isha Paty, the topper of Odisha Judicial Service, 2013 resigned from OJS to appear at DJS, 2014, because Hon’ble Odisha High Court, in place of forwarding her application advised her to resign from OJS to appear at DJS, 2014. Similarly the rank 1 of Uttar Pradesh judicial services and many other Delhi university and national law school toppers and gold medalists took part in the selection process, with many of them topping the preliminary stage of DJS. To say that 98% of these illustrious people did not even have enough talent and Merit to score a minimum of 50% marks in the mains examination is tantamount to questioning the quality of preliminary exam. If DJS itself, since it filtered out these same people to be qualified to take the mains.
There are many more candidates who were selected for other judiciary exams and they were toppers from very reputed universities. They are far behind this girl who managed to get a score of 590. Is it a mere coincidence ?
The topic of discussion is 'children of sitting judges in Delhi' (or so I infer). Children whose parents are well placed shouldn't be seen in a bad light. I speak on my own behalf here. The fact that one's parent(s) is/are well placed or highly ranked does not mean that their children are absolutely worthless. Since when has a person's parents' profession viewed like a disability?
You can't blame their better circumstances, please.
http://delhihighcourt.nic.in/writereaddata/upload/Recruitments/Results/ResultsFile_EDQAFA3Y.PDF
https://www.facebook.com/justicekatju/posts/965019203538626
In competitive exams like UPSC, DJS etc there is certain pattern and way in which questions are asked and marking is done. If suddenly for this year they have brought "two worded" strict checking then it reeks arbitrariness qua this year candidates who prepared on the basis of certain fixed parameters laid down over the years
So there are two narratives one being that out of 660 ppl who appeared including professional and students from top colleges no one was having bare minimum qualifications this year.
The second one being that some different standard of marking was adopted unlike previous years. Which is unfair to students who gave exam this year.
You are free to draw ur narrative as long as you think that it is reasonable.