An interim order passed in February 21 this year, restraining the public sector undertakings (PSUs) and companies from making recruitments through campus interviews in leading professional colleges, including the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), was vacated by the Madras High Court, on Wednesday.
The first bench comprising Chief Justice MY Eqbal and Justice TS Sivagnanam vacated the earlier status-quo, while passing orders on a batch of miscellaneous petitions seeking to lift the stay.
The bench said that it was of the opinion that if the interim order was allowed to continue, it would cause undue harassment to the candidates, who had been selected much prior to the grant of the status-quo order. “Accordingly, the order of status-quo granted is vacated,” the bench said and made it clear that any appointment made, after filing of the writ petition, should be subject to the result of the writ petition.
Originally, while passing interim orders on a public interest writ petition from advocate M Palanimuthu, the bench on February 21 last ordered maintenance of status-quo in respect of recruitment through campus interviews. Petitioner had contended that the PSUs and other major companies were recruiting the students only from the IIT and well-known colleges. This affected the fundamental right of equal opportunity to the other students.
Aggrieved, Deori Adarsh Kumar of Anna Nagar West Extention and 21 others moved the court to vacate the status-quo. Their counsel M Ravi contended that the petitioners had already been selected by the companies much earlier to the order of status-quo. But the appointment orders were not issued to them in view of the order. Once a candidate opted
wfor interview and selected by a particular company, he would be forbidden from participating in any other campus interview conducted by the company, Ravi pointed out.
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