Kathmandu, May 24 -- The Supreme Court has barred Tribhuvan University from drafting any regulation in the future to recruit staff and teachers through internal competition while avoiding free competition.

Nullifying two separate amendments to the TU rules related to the appointments of teachers and staff, restricting free competition, the top court has warned the country's oldest and largest varsity against such legal revisions in the future.

In April 2021, the TU Service Commission announced an open competition to fill 580 lecturer positions. The examination was scheduled to begin in the first week of September.

However, the university's part-time lecturers padlocked the commission's office and lobbied the political leadership to sto...