Srinagar- The High Court of J&K and Ladakh has held that an ineligible candidate cannot claim relaxation of eligibility criteria solely on the basis of having served on a contractual basis for some time.

A Division Bench of Justice Sanjeev Kumar and Justice Sanjay Parihar also emphasized that contractual engagement does not create any vested right to claim waiver of essential qualifications or to bypass the regular selection process mandated under Article 14 of the Constitution of India.

The Court made the observations upholding its single bench’s verdict, dismissing a plea filed by a candidate against who had challenged her disqualification from a recruitment process conducted by Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology (SKUAST), Kashmir pursuant to advertisement

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