"I aspire to be the Justice of the Supreme Court one day," Barak Valley's Monosijo Bhattacharjee after cracking judiciary examination

In the recently declared results of the Assam Judicial Service examination, Hailakandi’s Monosijo Bhattacharjee has secured All Assam Rank 13. Out of 22 candidates that have been selected this year for this service, Monosijo is the only candidate from Barak Valley. In the results declared on Wednesday by the Guwahati High Court, this appointment was notified in the Grade-III position of the Assam Judicial Service. This Gold Medalist Law Graduate from Assam University Silchar is currently an Assistant Professor of Law at the St Joseph’s College of Law, Bangalore. 

Before entering the teaching profession, Monosijo has been an active debater and quizzer at the school and university levels. At Assam University, Monosijo has remained a gold medalist in both LLB and LLM. After completing his master’s degree, Monosijo joined as an Assistant Professor in Bangalore. He also wrote regularly on several crucial issues for Barak Bulletin.

About his reaction after clearing this tedious examination process, Monosijo said, “It was a mixed emotion of excitement and humility. Excitement for the wonderful future prospects of this job and humility for the extraordinary responsibility which will be bestowed upon me”. Monosijo, who aspires to be a judge at the apex court of India mentioned, “The Constitution is not a charter of liberty granted by power, but a charter of power granted by liberty”. My endeavour, while exercising the role of a Judge, will be to protect and upload the liberties of people, their right to an egalitarian society and the freedom to breathe in a free democracy”, about his road ahead.

The Assistant Professor at St Joseph’s is also currently pursuing a doctoral degree from Assam University’s Deshabandhu Chittaranajna School of Legal Studies. About the process of clearing this examination, Monosijo said, “It’s a long-drawn process. From the prelims to the interview, it takes a period of more than a year. The Prelims is an objective MCQ-type examination comprising 100 questions. After the results of the prelims are out, the number of aspirants gets slashed to almost 1/10th of the total number of candidates who had appeared for the Prelims. Mains Examination has papers like English (100 marks) General Knowledge and Aptitude (100 marks), two Law papers consisting of 100 marks and 4 subjects for each paper. There is also a paper on Assamese which is of 50 marks and qualifying in nature. After about 3 months, the Mains result gets published and 3 candidates per post are usually called for an interview. At the end of this whole process, the merit list is published. This year, a total of 22 candidates cleared the examination”.

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