The Jharkhand High Court in an interim on Thursday (August 20) stayed State Government orders cancelling recruitments made through 11th to 13th Jharkhand Public Service Commission Exams, PTI has reported.

Notably, the State Government had recently cancelled the JPSC exams after several weeks of student protest over alleged irregularities in the conduct of such examinations.

The high court was hearing batch of petitions challenging the state government's notifications cancelling the appointments. The high court passed the interim order and sought response from the State Government on the petitions.

As per a PTI report, the State Government released a list of 44 recruitment exams that have been cancelled due to irregularities including the JPSC 11th to 13th Civil Services examinations, CDPO, Drug Inspector, Civil Judge, Assistant Conservator of Forest, Forest Range Officer, Assistant Professor and other recruitment examinations.

(This is a developing story)