Cuttack, May 6: Orissa High Court has called for records related to the recruitment for filling up of 140 posts in Ravenshaw University.

The court issued the order yesterday after it started hearing the petitions challenging the advertisement through which the university had invited applications for the posts of professor (16), reader (29) and lecturer (95) on June 23, 2014.

In August last year, the court had issued interim restrain orders in response to the petitions filed by applicants for the posts.

The order, however, allowed the university to continue with the selection process but restrained it from taking any final decision.

The court had taken up the petitions for hearing, along with a PIL on grievances related to the procedures followed for the recruitment and an appeal petition seeking intervention against delay in declaration of results due to the restrain orders.

"The division bench of Justice Indrajit Mahanty and Justice Biswanath Rath called for the records related to the recruitment," a petitioner's counsel Kshirod Rout said today. "The hearing is scheduled to be taken up again tomorrow," Rout said.

After receiving the aspirants' applications, the varsity had completed the selection process for 10 departments by November last year. But, the appointments are yet to be made.

The university has not been able to declare the results due to legal hurdle.

The petitions, on which the restrain orders had been passed, and the PIL had alleged that the experience laid down for the post of reader was incongruous with rules of the University Grants Commission (UGC).