D.N. PATEL, J.

1. This Letters Patent Appeal has been preferred by the original petitioner (appellant herein), whose writ petition bearing W.P(C) No. 1116 of 2017, was dismissed by the learned Single Judge vide judgment and order dated 19.09.2017 and hence, the original petitioner has preferred this Letters Patent Appeal.

2. Factual Matrix :

* The respondent-Jharkhand Public Service Commission has issued an advertisement for the 6th Combined Civil Services Competitive Examination in the month of October, 2016. This advertisement was for inviting application for the Class-II posts (civil services) in the State of Jharkhand.

* Preliminary Examination was conducted on 18.12.2016 in which there were two papers-General Studies-land General Studies-II, and each paper is having 100 questions, and marks are 200 for each paper. Thus, for General Studies-I and General Studies-II papers total marks are 400.

* Total vacancies published was 326 and 15 times more are the candidates to be selected from the result of the preliminary examination for allowing them to appear in the main examination, and thus, from the result of the preliminary examination, first 4890 candidates will be allowed t