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Serial No. 146

HIGH COURT OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND LADAKH

AT JAMMU

Pronounced on : 30.12.2025

Uploaded on : 15.01.2026

WP(C) No. 3049/2024

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Dinesh Singh Chib & Ors.

…..Petitioners

Through: Mr. Rudhar Partap Singh, Advocate.

Vs

UT of J&K & Ors.

.….Respondents

Through: Mrs. Monika Kohli, Sr. AAG.

Mr. Abhimanyu Singh, Advocate.

Mr. Nakul Singh, Advocate.

CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE RAHUL BHARTI, JUDGE

JUDGMENT

01. The institution of present two clubbed writ petitions

i.e., WP(C) No. 3049/2024 & WP(C) No. 28/2025 has taken

place with a backdrop situation which needs to be set out first

before coming to deal with very entertainability and

maintainability of the aforesaid two writ petitions by this Court.

02. Under the Jammu & Kashmir Police Rules, 1960

with respect to recruitment to the posts of Sub-Inspector, a

selection process was undertaken in the year 2016 when vide

advertisement Notice No. Pers-A-400/2016/75303-403 dated

30.12.2016, 658 posts were put to an advertisement for

selection which was carried out.

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03. Later on, in October, 2021, by virtue of an

advertisement Notice No. 06 of 2021 dated 21.10.2021 for

800 posts of Sub-Inspector, the selection process was intended

to be carried forward.

04. However, in connection with the recruitment process

related to the aforesaid advertisement Notice No. 06 of 2021,

maximum age relaxation came to be granted from 28 to 30

years by virtue of S.O. 420 of 2021 dated 10.12.2021 issued

in exercise of powers under rule 176 of the Jammu & Kashmir

Police Rules, 1960. The age relaxation was accorded by

keeping in view the intervention of COVID-19 Pandemic which

had set in the delay in conduct of the recruitment process

otherwise meant to be undertaken n terms of advertisement

Notice No. 06 of 2021 dated 21.10.2021

05. A writ petition WP(C) No. 2580/2022 was preferred

by 40 petitioners before this Court wherein they came to

question the decision of the Jammu & Kashmir Services

Selection Board (JK SSB) in engaging M/s Aptech Ltd.

Mumbai for conducting of examination through Computer

Based Test Mode (CBTM) and in that reference the selection

process envisaged for the recruitment of Sub-Inspector was

also referred to.

06. By virtue of a judgment dated 08.12.2022, the

learned writ court came to disqualify the said agency – M/s

Aptech Ltd., from conducting the recruitment related

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examination with a further direction to the Govt. for an

enquiry.

07. The outcome of writ court’s judgment obviously

meant the selection process envisaged with respect to the posts

of Sub-Inspector in terms of Advertisement Notice No. 06 of

2021 dated 21.10.2021 being held up.

08. However, on account of intervention of the Hon’ble

Division Bench in a letters patent appeal LPA No. 141/2022

the writ court judgment came to be set aside with remand of

matter with a direction to the writ court for deciding afresh.

09. However, an interim direct passed by the Hon’ble

Division Bench, in terms of its order dated 09.12.2022 related

to the outcome of the selection process ordered to be on hold

till further orders, was directed to continue in force till the final

decision of the writ petition remanded for fresh hearing.

10. Said writ petition WP(C) No. 2580/2022 came to

suffer dismissal in terms of judgment dated 31.08.2023 which

paved way for issuance of final select list on 08.01.2024

thereby resulting in selection and appointment of the selected

candidates to the posts of Sub-Inspector by reference to

Advertisement Notice No. 06 of 2021.

11. The petitioner No. 1 – Dinesh Singh Chib, in writ

petition WP(C) No. 3049/2024, submits that he alongwith other

meritorious candidates by reference to selection process of

Advertisement Notice No. 06 of 2021 had cleared the Computer

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Based Test (CBT) for further undergoing Physical Standard Test

(PST)/ Physical Endurance Test (PET) but could