Chandigarh, October 20 (Udaipur Kiran): In a major setback to the Haryana government, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has cancelled the recruitment examination for 255 Assistant District Attorney (ADA) posts in the state’s Prosecution Department. The court observed that the screening test, based primarily on general knowledge, had no connection to the legal skills required for the post and had unfairly eliminated deserving candidates.
The recruitment aimed to fill 134 General, 26 Scheduled Caste, and 54 Backward Class positions. The petitions were filed by advocates including Lakhan Singh, Navendra, and Aman Dalal, who challenged the Haryana Public Service Commission’s (HPSC) August 8, 2025, advertisement and its accompanying exam pattern notification issued the same day.
Justice Sandeep Moudgil, in a detailed 36-page judgment, stated that the exam syllabus — which included subjects like general science, current affairs, history, geography, and basic mathematics — ignored core law subjects entirely.
The court remarked that filtering aspiring legal professionals through a test lacking legal knowledge was a betrayal of the recruitment’s primary purpose. “Such a process operates arbitrarily and without any rational nexus to the object of selection,” Justice Moudgil observed.
The petitioners argued that, unlike previous recruitments where the screening test mainly included law-related questions, the new format focused solely on general topics — a move they termed unfair and irrelevant to the legal nature of the post. Agreeing with their contention, the court held that the role of an ADA requires expertise in criminal law, evidence, and procedural law.
The bench further noted that such a test would disqualify a large number of candidates in the preliminary stage without properly assessing their legal competence.
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