Srinagar- The High Court of J&K and Ladakh has upheld as “unexceptionable” its single bench’s verdict that an ad hoc, contractual, or academic arrangement appointee cannot be replaced by a similar arrangement for every academic session.

Disposing an appeal filed by the Kashmir University, a division bench of Justice Sanjeev Kumar and Justice Sanjay Parihar said that such appointees are entitled to continue till the posts against which such they have been engaged are filled up through a regular selection process.

However, the division Bench modified single bench’s order with regard to the requirement of temporary faculty in the Department of Law, ruling that it would be appropriate to leave it to the Department concerned and the regulatory authority under the Advocates Act, 1961, i.e., t

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