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RAJESH SHANKAR
Tinku Kumar Pandey – Appellant
Versus
State of Jharkhand through its Chief Secretary – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
At the request of the learned counsel for the petitioners, the defects as pointed out by the office are ignored.
The present writ petition has been filed for issuance of direction upon the respondents to fix the cut-off date for upper age limit either from the date of existence of vacancies or in alternative from the date when the present examination was scheduled to be held earlier in the year 2019 or before, by substituting the same in the Clause-5 of the advertisement being Advertisement No. 06 of 2021 (Amended) published on 03.02.2022 inviting applications for appointment to the posts of Junior Engineer (Electrical, Civil, Mechanical and Agricultural engineering trades). Further prayer has been made to extend the time for submission of their application forms.
2. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission (JSSC) published advertisement on its official website for conducting Jharkhand Diploma Level Combined Competitive Examination-2021 being Advertisement No. 06/2021 for making appointment to the posts of Junior Engineer (Electrical), Junior Engineer (Civil) and Junior Engineer (Mechanical) in Urban Development and Housing D
The discretion of the rule-making authority or employer to fix a cut-off date for determining the maximum or minimum age for a post, and the court's reluctance to interfere with such decisions unless....
The main legal point established in the judgment is the court's authority to grant age relaxation by modifying the cut-off date in recruitment advertisements, based on the interpretation of the Jhark....
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