Jammu Tawi, Jan 22: No candidate has qualified in the written examination held in September 2019 for direct recruitment of District Judges to Jammu and Kashmir higher judicial service.
According to a notification issued by the Registrar General of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, 217 candidates had appeared in the written examination but none secured the qualifying marks of 96 for general category and 80 for reserved category.
A senior judicial official told informed that this was the fifth such instance of even a single lawyer failing to qualify the exam.
The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh had issued a notification on November 11, 2018 calling for applications from practicing advocates, pleaders, assistant public prosecutors and civil judges as well as senior civil judges aged between 35 and 48 years, and with a work experience of more than seven years, for direct recruitment to the post of seven District Judges.
The selection was to be made through three successive stages with the first being a preliminary examination followed by a main examination and then a viva voce.
The minimum qualifying marks for Scheduled Caste and Schedule Tribe candidates was fixed at 50 per cent while it was 60 per cent for unreserved category.
None of them qualified while two secured a score of 0.
