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PUSHPENDRA SINGH BHATI, YOGENDRA KUMAR PUROHIT
Hanuman Singh S/o Shri Kumbh Singh – Appellant
Versus
State Of Rajasthan, Through Its Principal Secretary, Department Of Personnel – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
Pushpendra Singh Bhati, J:
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. Civil Writ Petition No.3757/2023, while treating the same as a lead case; rival submissions of the parties and the observations of the Court, in the present judgment, would also be based, particularly, on the factual matrix of the lead case.
2. The prayer clauses read as under:-
A. By an appropriate writ, order or direction, the impugned Para 7 (x) of the advertisement dated 11.11.2020 and rule 19(2) (b) & (c) Rajasthan forest subordinate rules 2015 states about the standard of Physical efficiency test for man including Ex-servicemen category irrespective of age/category in pursuance of the advertisement dated 11.11.2020 (Annex-2) and Corrigendum advertisement 11.03.2022 (Annex-3) may kindly be quashed and set aside.
B. By an appropriate writ, order or direction, any verbal/w
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