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DINESH MEHTA
Ravi Prakash Purohit S/o Gopal Purohit – Appellant
Versus
State Of Rajasthan, Through The Secretary, Department Of Animal Husbandry – Respondent
ORDER :
Dinesh Mehta, J.
1. The petitioner has challenged the cut off date (01.01.2025), which the respondent – Rajasthan Staff Selection Board, Jaipur (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Board’) has fixed for the age limit of a candidate.
2. Inviting Court’s attention towards the backdrop facts, Mr. Hanuman Singh, learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the recruitment Notification No. 2607 was issued on 06.10.2023, according to which, the candidates desirous of vying for the post of Animal Attendant were supposed to submit their online application form from 13.10.2023. He underscored that in said recruitment notification, the cut off date was fixed as 01.01.2024 for the purpose of determining the age of the candidates.
3. Learned counsel submitted that perhaps on account of assembly elections, the recruitment process was kept in abeyance and thereafter, by way of subsequent Notification No. 2710 dated 12.01.2024, a corrigendum in the form of amended advertisement was issued, in which the relevant date for the purpose of determining the age limit came to be altered to 01.01.2025 and the window for submitting the forms was opened between 19.01.2024 and 17.02.2024.
4. Informing th
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