CORAM : SMT. M. S. JAWALKAR AND PRAVIN S. PATIL, JJ.

ARGUMENTS HEARD ON : JULY 31, 2025.

PRONOUNCED ON : AUGUST 07, 2025.

JUDGMENT [PER PRAVIN S. PATIL, J.]

1. Heard. Rule. Rule made returnable forthwith. By consent of the parties, Petition is taken up for final hearing at the stage of admission.

2. By the present Petition, Petitioner takes exception to the order dated 22/12/2023, by which, the Respondent No.2/Chief Executive Officer, Zilla Parishad, Wardha cancelled the recruitment exercise for the post of Peon undertaken by the Respondent Nos.4 and 5/Grampanchayat, Antargaon in the year 2022. The Petitioner seeks indulgence of this Court to redress his grievance.

3. It is the case of the Petitioner that Respondent Nos.4 and 5 issued the public notice for the post of Peon in Grampanchayat, Antargaon, Tahsil Seloo, District Wardha. As per the advertisement, the post of Peon was shown from open category and requisite qualification for the post was 7th standard pass and have knowledge of computer and other factors. In the advertisement, the criteria of age limit was between eighteen to thirty years and for SC/ST/OBC category three years were relaxed. Accordingly, for reser