JUDGMENT

1. This writ petition is at the instance of the original applicant in Original Application No. 12 of 2016 on the file of the Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal, Mumbai (hereafter "the Tribunal", for short). It is directed against the order dtd. 29/11/2018 passed by the Tribunal dismissing the original application on the ground that the same was devoid of merits.

2. The facts reveal that the petitioner was an aspirant for the post of police constable. She belongs to Other Backward Class community. Appointment was sought for by the petitioner in the sports quota. One of the requirements of the advertisement inviting applications dtd. 30/4/2014 read with the relevant Government Resolution dtd. 30/4/2005 was that any aspirant seeking to obtain employment in the sports quota must be a state-level player. The petitioner applied on 23/5/2014. Together with her application, she had enclosed a certificate that she had participated in a competition at the sub-junior national level in hockey.

3. The said certificate, however, was not considered by the authorities to satisfy the eligibility criteria with the result that despite selection of the petitioner for appointment as a police c