JUDGMENT

Jitendra Jain, J. - By this petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the Petitioners have challenged an order dated 16th February 2023, passed by the Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal, Mumbai (for short 'Tribunal') whereby the Original Application (O.A.) No.364 of 2021 filed by the Petitioners came to be dismissed, solitarily on the ground that game of powerlifting was not included in the Olympics, Common Wealth and Asian Games as per Government Resolution of 2016 for the purpose of granting 5% reservation to the sports person.

2. Brief facts are as under:-

(i) On 30th January 2017, Respondent No.3-MPSC issued an advertisement bearing Advertisement No. 02/2017 for the post of Assistant Motor Vehicle Inspector. Certain posts were reserved for the sports person as per the said advertisement.

(ii) In February 2017, the Petitioners made an online application in response to the above advertisement under the open sports category. The Petitioners cleared their preliminary exams. On 1st July 2017, Respondent No.3-MPSC issued an advertisement for main exam for the aforesaid post. The Petitioners applied for the main exams and cleared the same. On 9th September 2019, m