Hon’ble Sudhir Agarwal, J.—This bunch of writ petitions relates to cancellation of appointment of Class III and IV employees of Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar University, Agra (hereinafter referred to as ‘’University’). The writ petitions No. 41113 of 2008, 41116 of 2008, 41118 of 2008, 41121 of 2008, 41123 of 2008, 41126 of 2008, 41128 of 2008, 41130 of 2008 and 5333 of 2008 relate to Class III employees (hereinafter referred to as ‘’writ petitions-first set’) and rest of the writ petitions relate to Class IV employees (hereinafter referred to as ‘’writ petitions-second set’).

2. Before coming to the actual dispute, the submissions and its adjudication, it would be appropriate to place certain facts in brief as borne out from record.

3. An advertisement No. 1 of 2007, was published by University on 25.10.2007 in daily news paper ‘Amar Ujala’ and on 28.10.2007 in daily news paper ‘Aaj’ for making recruitment to various Class III and Class IV posts. We are concerned here with the recruitment made on the post of Routine Clerks and Peons (Parichar). Details from the said advertisement, in respect to the aforesaid two category of posts, is as under:

Designation Total number of posts Distribution in various

reserved categories

1 Routine Clerk 11 8 SC, 1 ST, 2 OBC

2 Parichar 17 15 SC, 2 ST

4. The last date for receiving Application Forms was 12.11.2007. Applications were required to be sent by speed-post/ registered-post only. Some other relevant conditions, as advertised, were as under:

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5. Later on a corrigendum was published in daily news paper ‘Amar Ujala’ dated 22.11.2007 extending the last date of submission of applications forms to 26.11.2007. Some other conditions were also notified as under:

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