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HIGH COURT OF DELHI
SHWETA CHOWDHERY – Appellant
Versus
HONBLE HIGH COURT OF DELHI THROUGH ITS REGISTRAR GENERAL – Respondent
| Table of Content |
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| 1. aspirant's qualifications for dhjs application. (Para 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5) |
| 2. petitioner's challenges to eligibility age cut-off. (Para 6 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12) |
| 3. respondent's defense of age cut-off validity. (Para 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19) |
| 4. court's reasoning on cut-off date legality. (Para 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24) |
| 5. writ petition dismissal and conclusion. (Para 25 , 26) |
JDUGMENT :
C. HARI SHANKAR, J.
1. The petitioner aspires to enter the Delhi Higher Judicial Service, [“DHJS”, hereinafter]
2. The petitioner is the holder of a BA (Hons) English degree from the University of Delhi, followed by LLB from the Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut. She, thereafter, enrolled as an advocate with the Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh on 31 December 2015. She cleared the All India Bar Examination on 21 May 2016 and was issued
3. During the course of her practice, the petitioner also obtained her LLM degree from the Maharishi University of Information Technology, Lucknow in June 2023. She is presently perusing her Ph.D. in Investment Arbitration from the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha Univ
The court confirmed that cut-off dates for eligibility in recruitment processes can be set independently from application deadlines, ensuring clarity and fairness, as reflected in the Delhi Higher Ju....
The discretion of the rule-making authority or employer to fix a cut-off date for determining the maximum or minimum age for a post, and the court's reluctance to interfere with such decisions unless....
The High Court's administrative powers, rule-making authority, and the validity of age limits for judicial service examinations were central to the judgment.
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A candidate's eligibility cannot be negated by a subsequent amendment to the cut-off date if they were eligible under the original notification, as per the provisions of Rule 10 of the Rajasthan Anim....
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