On 25 Sep, the Punjab and Haryana High Court (PHHC) granted relief to 1,158 assistant professors and librarians in Panjab by allowing their recruitment, overturning a single bench ruling from 2022 that had rejected the initiative. The Panjab govt. had contested this decision highlighting that the recruitment process, which began in Oct 2021 ahead of the Panjab assembly elections, had been stalled for over three years. During the hearing, the Panjab govt.’s counsel demanded the immediate allotment of stations to the 607 candidates who had already been selected and the 135 who had joined, while addressing the pending station allotment for the remaining 472 assistant professors. Leaders of the 1,158 Assistant Professors and Librarians’ Union later met with state education minister Harjot Singh Bains to express their gratitude for his support throughout the legal proceedings (SDW Vol. 1 Issue 7, Story 2). Meanwhile, since 22 Sep, students at the Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law (RGNUL) in Patiala began protesting against Vice-Chancellor (VC) Prof. Jai Shankar Singh, demanding his resignation over allegations of entering the girls’ hostel without prior notice and making sexist remarks. The university administration formed a nine-member committee to address the grievances but on 27 Sep closed the university until further notice. The protesting students submitted a representation to the PHHC Chief Justice – the ex-officio Chancellor of the university – demanding the VC’s resignation. The Panjab state Women’s Commission wrote to the President of India Droupadi Murmu asking her to remove the VC.
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