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 cateogry..A senior judicial official told Bar & Bench that this was the fourth 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 5, 2018 calling for applications from practicing advocates aged between 35 and 45 years, and with a work experience of more than seven years, for direct recruitment to the post of seven District Judges. However, an extra age relaxation of two years was given to the candidate belonging to Scheduled Caste, Schedule Tribe and other Backward classes. .The selection for the District Judges is made through two successive stages with the first being a written 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.
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 cateogry..A senior judicial official told Bar & Bench that this was the fourth 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 5, 2018 calling for applications from practicing advocates aged between 35 and 45 years, and with a work experience of more than seven years, for direct recruitment to the post of seven District Judges. However, an extra age relaxation of two years was given to the candidate belonging to Scheduled Caste, Schedule Tribe and other Backward classes. .The selection for the District Judges is made through two successive stages with the first being a written 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.
