Sangrur, July 19 -- Hundreds of professors and librarians staged a protest outside chief minister Bhagwant Mann's residence in Sangrur on Saturday, demanding justice after their recruitment was quashed by the Supreme Court recently. The protest, organised under the banner of 1158 Assistant Professor and Librarian Front.

The top court had recently annulled the appointment of 1,091 assistant professors and 67 librarians recruited during the previous Congress government, citing the process as arbitrary and politically motivated.

Protester Jaswinder Kaur, a specially-abled candidate from Jalandhar, who was recruited at a government college in Shahkot blamed the state government for failing to present a proper defence in the court.

"The gov...