Honble LAKSHMANAN, CJ.–Heard learned counsel for the petitioner.

(2). The petitioner states that she passed her LL.B. examination in the year 1987 from Agra University and, therefore, enrolled as an Advocate with the Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh on 10.02.1990, and is practicing in District Court Mathura. According to her, she is fully eligible to appear in the RJS Examination, 2001 and she has the requisite experiences of 3 years as a Lawyer for appearing in the RJS examination. It is also her case that in the Advertisement and in the Rajasthan Judicial Service Rules, the age of relaxation of five years has been provided to the SC/ST candidates only, but the age relaxation to the female candidate has not been provided; though, the age relaxation is provided in all other Rules. The age relaxation for RJS examination has been provided to only SC/ST candidates, which is not only violative of Articles 14,16 and 21 of the Constitution of India, but is also against the national policy as the relaxation of reservation has been provided to the female candidates.

(3). The petitioners counsel invited our attention to the Advertisement dated, 01.06.2001, issued by the Rajasthan Public Service C

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