1. Respondent- J&K Service Selection Recruitment Board (For short, SSRB) vide Advertisement Notice No.04 of 2007 dated 19.11.2007 invited applications as against 343 posts of Junior Engineer (Elect.) Grade-II, which include 69 posts under the category of Resident of Backward Area (For short, RBA).

2. Admittedly, petitioner has applied under category RBA, but had not annexed RBA certificate with his application form, as a result whereof his merit position has been considered under open merit category wherein he had failed to make the grade as he had secured 59.54 points whereas the last selected candidate under open merit category had obtained 68.00 points and in open merit wait list 67.36 points. The candidate last selected under category RBA had obtained 58.34 points. The petitioner has submitted category certificate issued in his favour on 10.06.2009, same received by the Receipt Section of SSRB on 18.06.2009. Provisional select list was prepared and published on 23.06.2009. Aforestated position is clearly stated by respondent No.5- SSRB in its detailed reply wherefrom it is clear that in case petitioner would have been considered in RBA category, he would have figured in the sele

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