S.B.CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO. 8152/2008 Brij Pal Singh Vs. State of Raj. & Ors. Date of Order :: 24.10.2008 HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE GOVIND MATHUR Mrs. Nupur Bhati, for the petitioner. ... The Rajasthan Public Service Commission by a notification dated 28.8.1978 invited applications from eligible desirous candidates to be considered for appointment as Ranger Gr.I against existing 50 vacancies. The petitioner faced the process of selection however he was not selected. Subsequent thereto in the year 1983 the petitioner was appointed as Ranger Gr.I. By this petition for writ the petitioner is claiming for reckoning his seniority in the cadre of Rangers Gr.I since 1978 treating him to be selected as Ranger Gr.I in pursuant to the process of selection made under the notification dated 28.8.1978. It is contended by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner should have been selected as Ranger Gr.I in the year 1978 as in the relevant process of selection number of aspirants were not found medically fit, consequent thereto three vacancies were left vacant and against those vacancies appointment should have been given to the petitioner. It is also stated that the petitioner came to know about this fact only in the year 2007 on notification of the seniority list of Ranger Gr.I. Having considered the arguments advanced and record available I am not inclined to interfere in the matter at this belated stage. The process of selection relates to the year 1978 and appointments were given in the same year. The petitioner at that time was working in the Department of Forest as Forester, and therefore, it cannot be said that he was not aware of making appointments on the post of Ranger Gr.I, thus, in existing circumstances it shall not be proper to interfere with the process of selection now at this stage after a lapse of thirty years. The petition for writ, therefore, is dismissed. (GOVIND MATHUR), J. Jgoyal '