Patna High Court dismisses PIL filed to cancel selection made to the post of Amins published by government

The Patna High Court dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed to cancel the selections made to the post of Amins published as on 10.04.2023 by the Bihar Land Reforms and Revenue Department, Government of Bihar, Patna on its website.

The petitioner alleged that an online examination was conducted because of which meritorious students could not get job and those who illegally participated in the examination were appointed.

“This is an unsubstantiated allegation made with abject levity and callousness”, the Division Bench of Chief Justice K. Vinod Chandran and Justice Partha Sarthy said.

The petitioner also has stated that there are about 400 Amins working on contract basis and a list of 136 such contractual employees has been given in the memorandum of petition. Some of the appointment letters of the candidates now selected are also produced.

The petitioner also has a contention that weightage marks for experience is added in the final list of selections, made to the other departments, whereas no such provision was available in the appointment of Amins.

The Court noted that it is not clear as to whether the petitioner is agitating a public cause or the cause of the contractual employees. There is absolutely no public cause, we discern from the averments, which merely speak of an illegal online exam without stating as to what illegality was committed. As far as weightage to contractual employees, the same has to be agitated by them individually and cannot be agitated as a public interest before this Court. Further, even according to the petitioner there was a selection process conducted and persons appointed to the posts; none of whom are impleaded herein.

The Bench found absolutely no reason to invoke the extraordinary jurisdiction based on the sketchy averments made in the petition.