ORDER :

The present writ petition is taken up today through Video conferencing.

The present writ petition has been filed for declaring the proviso to rule 4 of the Jharkhand Civil Services Examination Rules, 2021 as contrary to rule 3(v) (wrongly written as rule 3(iv) in the writ petition) of the said Rule. Further prayer has been made for declaring that there is an abrupt departure of cut-off date for counting the upper age limit to appear in the Jharkhand Combined Civil Service Competitive Exam 2021 mentioned in Advertisement No. 01/2021 as the same will lead to ouster of several aspirants including the petitioners from the zone of consideration due to non-holding of the examinations which ought to be held year-wise regularly and the continuity of age relaxation has been broken without any valid reason thereby 5 years galloping jump has damaged their prospects due to non-compliance of the previous rule 3 [now rule 3(v)] of Rules, 2021. The petitioners have also prayed for issuance of direction upon the respondents to adhere to the previously adopted consecutivity of age relaxation as is evident from Advertisement No. 01/2020 so that there may not be any erosion of employment avenue