‘Fraud on Constitution’: High Court Freezes University of Kashmir Hiring over ‘Cheap Political’ Backdoor Entries
Jagriti Rai | 28 May 2026 | The Indian Express
Terming the backdoor entry in government services a “fraud on the Constitution,” and a unique “modus operandi” of successive governments for achieving “cheap political motives”, the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has dismissed a plea seeking regularisation.
While dealing with the pleas of three petitioners working on contact basis for the last nine years as junior engineers at the University of Kashmir, a bench of Justices Sanjeev Kumar and Sanjay Parihar stayed on fresh recruitment at the university, which triggered the petitioners’ pleas….