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The Delhi High Court has sought responses from Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) and the Centre connected a plea alleging spiritual favoritism successful the recruitment of the university’s outsourced non-teaching employees.
A Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia issued the notices connected the petition and granted JMI and the Centre 4 weeks to record its reply.
According to the petition, the grievance arises from a notification dated March 24, 2026, and a database of outsourced employees that purportedly shows that 720 retired of 986 outsourced employees beryllium to a peculiar community. The plea claimed this gave emergence to a “strong inference of discriminatory practices” successful the recruitment process.
The petitioner argued that the recruitment violated Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution, which warrant equality earlier the instrumentality and adjacent accidental successful nationalist employment.
The plea contended that JMI being a nationalist authority, was bound to travel law principles of fairness and non-discrimination.
The plea has sought the quashing of the March 24 notification and directions for a caller and transparent recruitment process for the outsourced workers. The plea has besides sought directions to the University Grants Commission to framework azygous guidelines governing recruitment of non-teaching unit successful universities funded by it.
