( 1 ) THE respondent - Divisional Office of the Life Insurance corporation of India ( the Corporation for short) had invited applications for appointment to the posts of Typists and Sub-staff for its Raichur divisional office. In this Writ Petition we are only concerned with the appointments made to the post of Sub-Staff in the Corporation. In the employment notice, the qualification that was prescribed for the post of Sub-staff is that, the applicant should have passed IX standard examination and the candidates who have passed SSLC examination with less than 55% of marks in the aggregate were also permitted to participate in the selection process.

( 2 ) PETITIONER who is a graduate, had stalked his claim by filling up the prescribed proforma application and filing the same before the respondent - Corporation Copy of the application is produced by the respondent - Corporation along with their statement of objection. The application requires to be filled by the applicants in their own hand writing. In Column 8 of the application, the applicant is required to state his qualification as on the date of filing of the application and if he is still prosecuting his studies tha