t'T BEFORieTHE HON'BLEHlGHCOURT^OiRGHI-IATTISGARHAt KfLASPUR WiaTPETrTlQN fSTN6. r^0/<"'/20l0 PETITIONER RESPONDENTS Sachin^<umar Dwivedi, S/o D.K. Dwivedi Aged about 21years, R/o Vidhya Nagar, Sehgal Gali, Bilaspur, District Bilaspur (C.G) VERSUS ^ 1; State QfGhhattisgarti Through theSecretary, Department of Pahchayat & Rural Development, Mantralaya/D.K.S. Bhawan , ' Raipur (C.G.) 2. Development Commissioner, Departmeht of Panchayat & Rural DevelQpment, Goverhment of Chhattisgarh Raipur,.C.G. . •• ^ : ' ;'' : . :. • 3. Janapd PaFichayatTakKatpur District Bilaspur, C.G, through its Chief Executive Officer, 4. Chief Executive Offjcer, Janpacl PanchayatTakhatpur Disti-ict Bilaspur, C.G. WRIT PETItIGIN AJNiDER _AR-rKa.E 226 OF THE CONSTITUTIONOFlNDIA. N lHGM®QUIN'OF^C;HH^I^SGiARH.:BILASPUR SINGiaBEN<3HfeHON'BI^SBRlMftmm)I^MOIlAMSHRlVASTAyA,^^ WriBretitiorilSt N6.3015/2010 PETITIONER RESPONDENTS Sachin KuiUar Dwivedi- Versus State pf Chhattisgarh & others PetitIOnu/A2266ftKeCdnStitUtlonofIndia •ABpearance:. ':; .. ' . .' • .•1 ': ^; - : ;:1 -'- . ;:.. 1.:':: '.'':'; ll.'...,:'' Shri Hemant Kesharwani,'ecfunsel 'fgr ithe petitioner; ^!'''< . ' . : '•'.' •' ^' • ••': :'i' ,; ,,'Slin.Bhaslsar:Paya8i,PaneI^La^eF^r^e:'States<;.^,^ ;.:,:'i^ ,-ORB^K^'.'l-:?:?!:;:^\-^^ ..tPassedon 28.6.:2010): -•••. ' ,. , , 1. By t&is petitipn/the ^etitioner seeks t6 chaUenge^lega^ condition No.2 of Advertisement.No/ ll69/;Riai^^^ ^ l^ Jariuary, 2Q07 feas been preseribecl Ms ^ ref^nee to which, the eBgibiIitycritei^^ 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner subm^ January, 2007 as the cutQffdateiscoiTtra^ in Sc^edule ^I appended to ^t^ Karmi (Recniitmerit and Gondi^o^ '(tfejRufeso^^007"),astherulesd®^ I^arned cpunselfortheRetition^'fH^ers^ Jarmary, 2007' as the^.c^ relatmgto ageisbfherwise.irrational'anclarbkra^ -2- 50 Jl. that theage^eligibility-isito be reclOTned with referenee to last^d subniissiori pfapplication fonris; The thiry and the last submisskin of" learned counsel for^^^^^^ peUtioner is that otherwise also, as the selecfion itseif stai-ted toy issuancepfaxlyertisernenton 12.6.2007, prescribingl^January^ as the cutoff o£date, is unusual, arbitrary and has resulted iri grave hardship to the petitioner and many other'candidates who w^ been eligible had the cutoff date been Exed with reference to last date of subniission of appUcatipn fonns. 3. A perusal of CoK-imn -3 OfSchedule-II appenxled t6 the I^les p^ shows that for appointment to the post of Shiksha Karmi GraeleTlII, minimuih age has;t>eeniprescnfe 35 years ferthe said post/Neither in the relevant rules or^m II appended to the Rules of 2007, ai^ provisio& with r^ cutofE' date has been speeified. It is ^ll^setfled^ that in^ & absenGe of any i sueh prescripfion. in the rule, the Appoinfing Authority pr the SeleGtiori Agency eould prescribe a cutoff date. There is no barunder the Rules of 2007 in prescrtbing GtltofSdate J^le fo show that date pnor to the dafe^^^^o^^ could not be specified as cutoff da& foi- ffi eligibility critena. I am thereIbi^xlnableitQ^cepttfc specifying 1st Jamiary, 20Q7 ;as ^ provision cpntamed m fhe; Rute contained in Schedule ^ appended^to the said l?ules. 4. If is weU settled that in ffie^a£senc»^^^^ under^the governmg recruitment rules or^in fhe a^ cytoff date would be the last 4ate fi^ sufemission^ ^ However, onee the cutoffdate Uas beenprescril^iim :-3:- m itself, it cannotbe accepted that wen^ such cir^^ cutoff date ^uIA 6e ighored and^^& date for submission of application form •wduld be the relevarit cutoff date for serutiny relating to eligibility criteriaofage. ' , 5. In the matter of Rekha Chaturvedi (Smt.l Vs. _University of Raiasthan & Ors, 1993 Supp (31 SCC 168, jt has been held by the Supreme Gourtas under:- ""10. .......Unless the adverdsement mentions a Bxed date with reference to which the qualiiicatipns are to be judged, whether the sa^ otherwise, it would not be possible for the ca^ who do not pqssess ttie re<^site /gualifiGations^^^^^^^ praesenti even to inake appUcal^ns fcjr the^^^^p^ uncertainty of the date may also lead to a coritrary : consequence, viz., even thdse candidEites who do not Ua^ ffle^qualifieations^^^^i^ and are likely to aequir®'fhem?aKan?uneertamvfut^ the posts thus swelling the number of applicEitions. But a still worse consequence inayfollow, in thatitmay leave open a scope for malpracfices. The date of selection may Ue so fixed br manipulated as t6 entertairi some applicants and rejeet pthers, arbifrarily. Hence, in the absence of a fixed tlafe indicated m the ayvertisemerit/notificaMbn invitmg applications with refereiice te which the r^quisite qualifications should be V jud^d, the only certain date fbr the scrutiny fi^ the qualifications will be the lasf date for inaking the applications...;.." Therefbre, the second subinission of leamed counsel for the petitiorier is also sans-merit anddeserves rejectiQn. 6. 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