RAM AUTAR SINGH Vs. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

JUDGEMENT

(1.) CHALLENGE in this writ Petition is to the rejection of the petitioners' application to appear at the competitive examination for recruitment to the post of Munsif in U. P. Nyayik Seva, by the U. P. Public Service Commission, respondent no. 1 (hereinafter called the Commission), on the ground that the application was received beyond the last date fixed by the commission.

(2.) IN the month of May 1986, the Commission, issued an advertisement that a competitive examination shall be held sometime in October, 1986 for selection of candidates for appointment to the post of Munsif in the U. P. Nyayik Seva. The closing date for the receipt of the application in the Commission office was 14-7- 1986. IN page 2 of the advertisement it was, inter alia, stated: "Closing date for the receipt of application in commission office will be July 14, 1986. Applications received after this date will not be entertained". IN page 3 of the advertisement it was stated :

(3.) THE relevant portion of the advertisement issued by the commission extracted earlier would show that the Commission had quite clearly notified that the closing date for the receipt of the applications was 14-7-1986, that all applications completed in all respects must reach the Secretary of the Commission on or before the aforesaid date and that the applications received after the closing date would not be accepted. In the present case there is no dispute that although the application form was despatched by the petitioner from Bijnor on 4-7-1986, it was received in the Commission office on 25-7-1986 after the expiry of the closing date.