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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI

W.P.(S) No. 1214 of 2021

1.

Pranav Kumar Roy

2.

Santosh Kumar

3.

Manoj Kumar Gupta

4.

Prabhu Prakash Oraon

5.

Amit Kumar Jha

6.

Sujeet Kumar

7.

Anand Kishor Dangi

8.

Rajesh Kumar Mahto

9.

Wakil Yadav

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Petitioners

Versus

1.

The State of Jharkhand through the Chief Secretary, having its office at

Project Bhawan, Ranchi

2.

The Principal Secretary, Department of Personnel, Administrative Reforms

and Rajbhasha, Government of Jharkhand, Project Bhawan, Ranchi

3.

The Jharkhand Public Service Commission through its Chairman, Circular

Road, Ranchi

4.

The Secretary, Jharkhand Public Service Commission, Circular Road, Ranchi

5.

The Examination Controller, Jharkhand Public Service Commission, Ranchi,

Circular Road, Ranchi

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….. Respondents

With

W.P.(S) No. 1186 of 2021

1.

Praveen Kujur

2.

Atikur Rahman

3.

Kaushalesh Kumar

4.

Vijay Kumar Sharma

5.

Pradeep Kumar Pathak

6.

Prashant Kumar

7.

Kuldeep Mahota

….

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Petitioners

Versus

1.

The State of Jharkhand through the Chief Secretary, having its office at

Project Bhawan, Ranchi

2.

The Principal Secretary, Department of Personnel, Administrative Reforms

and Rajbhasha, Government of Jharkhand, Project Bhawan, Ranchi

3.

The Jharkhand Public Service Commission through its Chairman, Circular

Road, Ranchi

4.

The Secretary, Jharkhand Public Service Commission, Circular Road, Ranchi

5.

The Examination Controller, Jharkhand Public Service Commission, Ranchi,

Circular Road, Ranchi

...

….. Respondents

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CORAM:

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DR. S. N. PATHAK

(Through Video Conferencing)

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For Petitioners

: Mr. Ajit Kumar, Sr. Advocate

Mr. Vikash Kumar, Advocate

For Respondent-State : Mr. Mohan Kumar Dubey, AC to AG

For JPSC

Mr. Sanjay Piprawall, Advocate

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03/ 07.04.2021 Since the common issues are involved in these writ petitions and as

such, these are taken up together and disposed of by this common order.

2.

In the both the writ petitions, the petitioners have approached this

Court with the following prayers:

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a.

for quashing of the Advertisement No.01/2021 (Annexure-7) published

on 08.02.2021 in so far as the condition contained in Clause-4 with respect to

fixation of cut-off date i.e. 01.08.2016 for counting of upper age limit of the

candidates and inclusion of the examination of the year, 2017, 2018 and

2019 is concerned.

b.

For quashing the resolution contained in Memo No. 805 dated

05.02.2021 (Annexure-6), whereby and whereunder the Respondents have

most arbitrarily prescribed 01.08.2016 as the cut-off date for counting the

upper age limit of the candidates who were supposed to be applicants as

against the Advertisement No.01/2020 for 2017, 2018 and 2019 CCS

examinations in which the said cut-off date was fixed as 01.08.2011.

c.

For showing cause the respondents as to how and under what

circumstances the Jharkhand Combined Civil Services Examination Rules,

2021 (Annexure-5) can be made applicable to the vacancies of the year,

2017, 2018 and 2019 and for the examinations to be held for the said years

particularly when the advertisement No. 01/2020 for that purpose was also

published.

d.

For commanding the respondents to show cause as to why and under

what circumstances the Advertisement No. 01/2020, which was issued for

conducting the Combined Civil Services Competitive Examination for the

year, 2017, 2018, and 2019, wherein the cut-off date for counting the

maximum age/upper age limit was fixed as 01.08.2011, has been withdrawn

/recalled to replace it with another Advertisement No.01/2021 for the same

years i.e., 2017, 2018, 2019 and one added year i.e. 2020 with a new

condition for fixing the cut-off date for counting the maximum age/ upper age

limit as 01.08.2016, whi