ORAL JUDGMENT

Date : 06-08-2024 Heard Mr. Ashok Chaudhary, learned Senior counsel for the petitioner and Mr. Harsh Singh, learned counsel for the Bihar State University Service Commission.

2. The petitioner has filed this writ petition seeking a direction to the respondents to accept the Non Creamy Layer certificate of the petitioner and treat her candidature as reserved category candidate of Backward Class for her appointment as Assistant Professor in department of Economics in any constituent college of the State of Bihar, pursuant to advertisement dated 21.09.2020 issued by the Bihar State University Service Commission (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Commission’).

3. By the aforesaid advertisement issued by the Commission, the Commission has invited application for filling up various posts of Assistant Professors including Assistant Professor in department of economics, wherein 30 posts of Assistant Professor (Economics) for candidates of Extremely Backward Class was also advertised. As per Clause 8.3.5 and 11.1 of the advertisement, the applicant was required to submit various documents specified therein including the Non Creamy Layer Certificate by those candidates, who are cl