Overview

• On May 30, Justice Jyoti Singh set aside Delhi University’s August 25 and 29, 2023 notifications that froze appointments for laboratory and library attendants.
• The ruling condemned DU’s reliance on post-selection informal interactions to assess candidate competence as arbitrary and a “classic case of scant regard for fairness in action.”
• The bench found no proof of unfair means in the written exams and labelled the university’s data-analysis probe a form of “reverse engineering” to stall the process.
• Delhi HC directed DU to finish document verifications immediately and permit selected candidates to join with all consequential benefits.
• Petitioners lost nearly two years of career progress, with some resigning prior jobs and others becoming overage for further exams due to the recruitment freeze.