DHIRAJ SINGH THAKUR, PUNEET GUPTA
Suresh Kumar Sharma – Appellant
Versus
UT of J&K – Respondent
Order :
Dhiraj Singh Thakur, J.
1. This is a petition seeking review of judgement and order dated 18.03.2020 passed in LPA No. 218/2019.
Briefly stated, the material facts are as under:-
2. An advertisement notification dated 16.12.2013 was issued by the respondents inviting applications for 42 posts of Librarian. The maximum age prescribed for in-service candidates as on 01.01.2013 was 45 years.
The petitioner being in Government service in the Technical Education Department also applied for the said post. However, this advertisement was withdrawn by the J&K Public Service Commission (PSV) vide order dated 29.09.2016 and a fresh advertisement notice was issued on 13.12.2016. This time the number of posts advertised was 67 as against 42 notified earlier. The age of in-service candidates was prescribed as 40 years as on 01.01.2016. Since the petitioner was ineligible in terms of the notification dated 13.12.2016, he preferred a writ petition, which was dismissed vide judgment and order dated 04.06.2019. An intra-Court appeal was preferred by the petitioner, which too came to be dismissed vide judgement and order dated 18.03.2020.
3. The crux of the argument of the petitioner in LPA wa
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