Pramath Patnaik, J.

In the accompanied writ application, the petitioner has, inter alia, prayed for direction upon the respondents to appoint her on the post of the Police Constable in pursuance to the Advertisement No. 1/2004.

2. The brief facts, leading to filing of the writ application, is that by virtue of marriage of the petitioner with one Durga Charan Nag belonging to the Scheduled Tribe, a caste certificate was issued under the signature of the Block Development Officer, Jamshedpur, vide Certificate No. 5060, dated 29.11.2003 in which she was shown to be a member of the Scheduled Tribe as per Annexure-1 to the writ application. Advertisement No. 1 of 2004 was published in daily newspaper 'Prabhat Khabar', inviting applications from candidates, who were 7th pass for appointment of altogether 12541 posts of the Jharkhand Police Constable and the last date was fixed on 15.2.2004. In pursuance to the said advertisement, the petitioner applied for the same post of the Constable for East Singhbhum District for which there were 519 vacancies. In pursuance to her application, the petitioner got the acknowledgement receipt and the Roll Number. Thereafter, she appeared in the