JUDGMENT :

1. Since all the instant petitions involve a common controversy, though with marginal variation in the contextual facts, therefore, for the purposes of the present analogous adjudication, the facts and the prayer clauses are being taken from the above-numbered D.B. Special Appeal Writ No.347/2022 [arising out of common order dated 28.01.2022 passed in SB CWP No.15381/2018 alongwith other connected petition(s) (arising out of order dated 14.02.2022], while treating the same as a lead case.

1.1. Though most of the instant special appeals have been preferred by the State, but since in some of the instant appeals, the Rajasthan Public Service Commission is the appellant, therefore, the same shall hereinafter be referred to as ‘RPSC’ in the present judgment.

2. The prayer clause reads as under:

“It is therefore most respectfully and humbly prayed that this Special Appeal Writ may kindly be allowed and the order impugned dated 28.01.2022 as passed by Learned Single Judge in SBCWP No.15381/2018 may kindly be set aside and the writ petition as preferred by the petitioner may kindly be dismissed.

3. Brief facts of the case, as placed before this Court by Mr. Pankaj Sharma, learned Ad