Chandigarh, May 13 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court quashed the recruitment process of 613 posts of assistant professors (English) in Haryana.

The bench of justice Tribhuvan Dahiya also quashed the advertisement put out by the Haryana Public Service Commission (HPSC) issued in 2024 and ordered that fresh advertisement be issued.

The petitioners had sought quashing of the advertisement alleging that the HPSC diluted mandatory University Grants Commission (UGC) regulations and introduced its own rules for the selection process. The criteria for shortlisting and selection was framed by the commission on the basis of the government memorandum, which was not as per 2018 regulations notified by UGC, they had argued.

The petitions were fr...