Jat quota case deferred to July 4

[Jaswinder Singh Baidwan]

Chandigarh: Less than a month after reservation for Jats in government jobs and admission to educational institutions under the BC (C) category was stayed, a vacation Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court made it clear that the matter was required to be heard by a regular Bench after the summer vacations. The Bench of Justice M. Jeyapaul and Justice Harinder Singh Sidhu also fixed the case for July 4.
Seeking the vacation of ex-parte interim orders, Haryana had earlier stated that the petitioner had approached the High Court without exhausting the available channel for redress of his grievances. The state claimed that it was mandatory for the petitioner to move the Haryana Backward Classes Commission, the statutory authority to entertain and examine complaints/issues raised by the present petitioner in his writ petition.
As such, the present writ petition was not maintainable. It was premature at the current stage. Therefore, the impugned stay orders were liable to be set aside on the score alone Counsel for the state added that the process for carrying out recruitment to various posts had already been initiated by the Haryana Staff Selection Commission as well as the Haryana Public Service Commission. Besides, the admissions to undergraduate and postgraduate courses for session 2016-17 were also open; and candidates had applied under the backward classes’ category.