WP(C) 689/2009 BEFORE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE RANJAN GOGOI Heard Mr. R. Mazumder, learned counsel for the petitioners and Mr. P. Upadhaya, learned Central Govt. Counsel, appearing for the respondents. As agreed to and in view of the subject matter involved final orders in the writ petition are being passed at the motion stage. The five petitioners had applied pursuant to an advertisement dated 5.12.2008 fo r filling up vacant posts of General Duty Constables under the Central Reserve P olice Force (hereinafter referred to as the Force). Under Clause 14(vi) of the a dvertisement candidates belonging to the State of Assam were required to produce Permanent Resident Certificate (PRC) issued by the competent authority of the S tate Government. In the said clause of the advertisement it was also specified t hat PRCs mentioning the same to be valid for education purpose only will not b e accepted. According to the petitioners, PRCs in the State of Assam are being i ssued only for educational purposes and not for any other purposes. Consequently , their applications were accompanied by PRCs which were for educational purpose s only. As the petitioners had not received the call letters in spite of selecti on having commenced from 21st of January 2009 enquiries were made by them which revealed that their candidatures had been rejected as they had not submitted PRC s in terms of Clause 14(vi) of the advertisement. Hence, this writ petition. In a series of writ petitions i.e. WP(C) No.286 of 2009 and other connected case s, disposed of on 16.2.2009, this Court had taken note of the stand of the State Government that PRCs in Assam are being issued only for educational purposes an d not for any other purposes. Accordingly, the petitioners in the aforesaid writ petitions, who though had been issued Admit Cards but were debarred from appear ing in the selection, were allowed by this Court to participate in the selection s in accordance with the directions contained in the said order. The cases of the petitioners in the present writ petition are substantially same and similar to those involved in WP(C) No.286 of 2009 and other connected cases . As PRCs in the State of Assam, according to the State Government, are being is sued only for educational purposes and certificates with regard to proof of resi dence can be submitted only after the selection is over and, that too, in respec t of selected candidates the Court is of the view that the actions of the respon dents in refusing to issue Admit Cards to the petitioners and in not allowing th em to participate in the selection is not justified. The Court, therefore, directs the respondents to allow the petitioners to partic ipate in the selection without insisting upon the PRCs as stipulated in Clause 1 4(vi) of the advertisement. The Court is informed that according to the original schedule the selections, wh ich had commenced on 21st of January 2009, are to be completed on 21st of Februa ry 2009. If that be so and within the time available it is not possible for the respondents to allow the petitioners to undergo the selection process, fresh dat es of selection will be fixed by the CRPF authorities which will be duly intimat ed to the petitioners. This will dispose of the writ petition.