JUDGMENT

Ajay Mohan Goel, J. - As common issues of facts and law are involved in these petitions, they are being disposed of by a common judgment.

2. Arguments were heard in CWPOA Nos.6 of 2019 and 19 of 2019, on 8th October, 2020, on which date, judgment was reserved in these petitions. CWPOA No.7 of 2019, was tagged alongwith CWPOA Nos.6 of 2019 and 19 of 2019. However, on the request of learned Senior Counsel for the petitioner, further hearing in this petition was deferred for 13.10.2020 and for this limited purpose, this petition was delinked from CWPOA Nos.6 of 2019 and 19 of 2019, to enable the learned Senior Counsel appearing for the petitioner in the said petition to make her submissions in addition to the submissions already made by the learned counsel for the petitioners in the connected petitions and accordingly, on 13.10.2020, arguments were heard in CWPOA No.7 of 2019 and judgment was reserved.

3. Vide advertisement No.34-1/2018 (appended with CWPOA No.6 of 2019, as Annexure A/3), the Himachal Pradesh Staff Selection Commission, Hamirpur, H.P., invited applications, inter alia, for the post of Food Safety Officers. The post Code was 657' and as per advertisement, in a