Delhi High Court: DHJS mains rescheduling notice listed

The Delhi High Court has listed a notice on rescheduling the Delhi Higher Judicial Service (DHJS) Mains Examination (Written), 2026, alongside an admit-card download entry on its official website. FreeJobAlert reports that the examination has been moved from 10 and 11 October to 22 and 23 October 2026, citing a court notice dated 8 October 2026.

The official listing establishes that the court has posted a rescheduling notice, but the available page text does not reproduce its contents or give the revised examination dates. The dates and the stated reason for postponement are therefore drawn from FreeJobAlert’s account, rather than a review of the full notice.

According to FreeJobAlert, the court postponed the examination at the request of the Commissioner of Police, Delhi. The publication reports that the notice gives no further explanation for that request. My Education Wire also reports the move to 22 and 23 October and attributes the postponement to the police commissioner’s request.

The reported change affects candidates proceeding to the mains written examination. It is not described as a reopening of recruitment applications or a change to the preliminary examination. Physics Wallah’s account of the recruitment notification places the mains between the preliminary examination and the viva voce, an oral assessment forming the final selection stage.

Admit-card entry does not identify revised cards

The High Court’s homepage and Updates page both carry an entry titled “Download Admit Card for Delhi Higher Judicial Service Mains Examination (Written) – 2026”. Neither listing identifies the cards as revised or states when they became available.

FreeJobAlert reports that the 8 October notice provides for revised admit cards but does not specify their release date. It also reports that the original mains admit card was made available on 5 October 2026, before the date it gives for the postponement notice.

The official download entry and the reported commitment to issue revised cards establish different things. The first shows that an admit-card entry is listed; the second describes what the postponement notice reportedly promised. The listing alone does not establish whether the cards accessible through it incorporate the rescheduled dates.

The Updates page also contains two entries with the same rescheduling-notice title. Their contents and issue dates are not reproduced in the available page text, so it does not establish how the two notices relate to each other. Their presence cannot, by itself, establish a further change beyond the schedule reported by FreeJobAlert and My Education Wire.

The official page extracts do not supply a paper-wise timetable or reporting instructions. FreeJobAlert says the postponement notice does not mention changes to the examination pattern, syllabus or centres. That absence does not confirm that every earlier arrangement remains unchanged; those details are not established by the available listings.

From July applications to the written examination

Physics Wallah’s account of the recruitment notification describes an online application window from 10 am on 1 July to 5.30 pm on 15 July 2026. It identifies the exercise as direct recruitment to the Delhi Higher Judicial Service for experienced advocates and eligible judicial officers.

The High Court’s Updates page subsequently lists the complete result of the preliminary examination held on 26 July 2026. A separate entry identifies the result of candidates shortlisted for the mains written examination. These are distinct records: one covers the preliminary examination results, while the other identifies those selected to proceed to the next stage.

The court’s page also lists a notice uploading model answer keys and inviting objections, an online facility for filing those objections, and a notice concerning deletion of preliminary examination questions. These entries document an answer-review process, but the page extract does not disclose which questions were deleted, the objections received or their effect on individual results.

According to Physics Wallah, shortlisted candidates take a descriptive mains examination, meaning a written-answer assessment rather than the preliminary screening stage. The subsequent viva voce assesses legal knowledge, communication skills, personality and suitability for appointment to the service. The reported postponement concerns the written stage within that sequence.

Recruitment covers existing and anticipated vacancies

Physics Wallah reports that the recruitment notification announced 27 vacancies, comprising 24 existing vacancies and three anticipated vacancies up to 30 June 2027. The distinction matters: the reported total includes both posts already vacant and posts expected to become available within the stated period.

Its account identifies three Scheduled Caste vacancies and four Scheduled Tribe vacancies as backlog vacancies, or unfilled vacancies carried forward. It also reports three vacancies reserved for candidates with benchmark disabilities of 40 per cent or more. These figures describe features of the announced recruitment and are not additions to the reported total of 27 vacancies.

Physics Wallah says the vacancy count may change depending on administrative requirements or court orders. FreeJobAlert, meanwhile, reports that the postponement notice itself does not mention vacancies. The rescheduling announcement therefore should not be read as a fresh statement of the number of posts available.

The material also separates preliminary answer-key procedures from the mains examination. Although the court lists answer-key and objection notices for the preliminary stage, My Education Wire reports that the mains postponement notice does not mention an answer key or an expected release date. No mains answer-key timetable is established by those preliminary-stage notices.