Order

04/08/2021 Counsel for the respondents submitted that the issue involved in this writ petition has been considered and decided by the Coordinate Bench of this Court in S.B. Civil Writ Petition No.12608/2018 in the matter of Arvind Singh Charan and Ors. Vs. State of Rajasthan and Ors. wherein on 06.03.2019, the following order was passed:-

“All these petitions agitate a common question of law and therefore, are being disposed by this common judgment, where necessary facts of S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 20542/2017 – Asha Meena Versus RPSC will be adverted to.

The matter in issue pertains to appointments to the post of College Lecturer in different subjects under the Rajasthan Education Service (Collegiate Branch) Rules, 1986 (hereafter ‘the Rules of 1986’).

Vide advertisement dated

12.1.2015, the respondent RPSC invited applications for appointment to the post of College Lecturers in various subjects under the Rules of 1986. As per condition no. 2 of the advertisement aforesaid, the age of a candidate was required to be minimum 21 years as on 1.7.2015 and maximum 35 years as on the aforesaid date.

All the petitioners admittedly do not reach 21 years as on 1.7.2015. The petitioner A