1. The petitioner is aggrieved by his non-selection by the Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) pursuant to the 48th to 52nd Combined Competitive Examination held by it. These examinations were for various vacancies in the Bihar Administrative Service, Bihar Police Service, Jail Superintendent, Commercial Taxes, Education Service and several other State Services.

2. Counter affidavits and rejoinders have been filed. Pleadings being complete, with consent of parties, the writ petition has been heard for its disposal at this stage itself.

3. Briefly stated, petitioner’s grievance is that he, being a person belonging to notified Scheduled Tribe, has been wrongly deprived of his chance of appointment. A person, who was also a Scheduled Tribe candidate, had qualified in the general merit list but he was not so treated and he was treated in the Scheduled Tribe list of candidates. The result was that the said respondent being Umesh Kumar Bharti (respondent No 4) having been brought into the list of Scheduled Tribe candidates, petitioner got ousted. In other words, if this Meritorious Reserved Candidate (MRC for brevity) was treated as a general candidate and not a reserved candid