ORDER :

1. Delay condoned.

2. Respondent No.2-Delhi Subordinate Services Board issued advertisement No.09/2007, inviting applications for recruitment to the vacant posts in the Subordinate Services. Claiming to be an OBC candidate, the petitioner submitted his application without enclosing a certificate from the competent authority, though before the cut-off date notified in the advertisement. As the petitioner did not submit the required certificate from the competent authority before the cut-off date, he was not treated as an OBC candidate. Hence, the petitioner was not issued an appointment letter, though he secured marks above the cut-off point in the OBC category.

3. The petitioner attempted to claim inclusion in the OBC category by producing the required caste certificate after the cut-off date, i.e., January 21, 2008. When such claim was not accepted by the respondents, he approached the High Court of Delhi by way of filing a writ petition, which was dismissed by the impugned order.

4. During the course of hearing learned counsel for the petitioner brought to the notice of this Court, a two-Judge Bench judgment in the case of Ram Kumar Gijroya v. Delhi Subordinate Services Selec