Honble LAKSHMANAN, CJ.–The prayer in the writ petition reads thus:-

i) the respondent be directed to accept the application form of the petitioner for recruitment to Rajasthan Judicial Services and to allow her to appear in the Rajasthan Judicial Service Competetive Examination-2001 being conducted by Rajasthan Public Service Commission, Ajmer irrespective of the fact that petitioner will cross the age of 35 years on 1.1.2002;

ii) the respondent be directed to suitably amend the Rajasthan Judicial Service Rules, 1955 so as to make the Notification No.F.7(2) DOP/A-II/84 G.S.R. 40 dated 18.12.87 issued by the Governor of Rajasthan in exercise of its powers under Article 309 providing for age relaxation of widow and divorced women;

iii) the respondent be directed to amend the Rajasthan Judicial Service Rules, 1955 so as to provide age relaxation of 5 years in case of women candidates;

iv) such other order as your lordship deem proper may also be passed in favour of the petitioner.

(2). The petitioner is a divorcee whose marriage was dissolved under Sec. 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act by the Judge, Family Court, Jaipur on 14.7.97. The petitioner was born on 12.5.1964, in proof of it, the peti

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