(1.) The present petition has been filed with a prayer that the respondents should be directed to accept the print out of the application along with the required documents which were submitted by the petitioner online pursuant to Advertisement dated 7 February 2014 published by the U.P. Public Service Commission (the Commission) for selecting suitable candidates for the post of Lecturers in various subjects in the department of State Education Research and Training Council, Uttar Pradesh.
(2.) As per the advertisement, the last date for submitting the applications online was 11 March 2014. The last date for submission of the print out copies of the application so submitted online as well as certificates of the qualifications and other documents, was mentioned as 21 March 2014 by 5.00 P.M.
(3.) It has been stated that the petitioner submitted her application online on 5 March 2014 for the post of Lecturer (Home Science) shown at serial no. 20 in Department No. S-4/20. The petitioner sent her application along with the required documents by Speed Post on 14 March 2014 to the office of the Commission but the Commission did not receive the application of the petitioner and returned the same.