Srinagar, Dec. 31 -- The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has declared unconstitutional a clause in a High Court recruitment advertisement that restricted eligibility for district cadre posts based on residence. The ruling came in a writ petition filed by Balwinder Kumar, a Scheduled Caste candidate from Samba, who applied for the post of Orderly (Class-IV) in District Baramulla but was denied an interview due to a clause confining district cadre posts to candidates from the same district.The Division Bench of Justices Sanjeev Kumar and Sanjay Parihar observed that the petitioner did not conceal his residence, and his application was initially accepted and shortlisted. Rejecting the respondents' claim of estoppel, the court noted tha...