SURINDER PAL Vs. PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

JUDGEMENT

(1.) ORDER in this writ petition will dispose of writ petitions 14664, 14747, 14748, 12872 and 14440 of 1993 as well as common questions of law and fact are involved in all of them.

(2.) BY an advertisement published in June, 1993 the Punjab Public Service Commission, Patiala (for short, the Commission), as per its advertisement No. 6 invited applications from eligible candidates for the Punjab Civil Services (Executive Branch) and Allied Services examination.

(3.) IN view of the reply filed on behalf of respondent No. 3, it is clear that the application of the petitioner was received to the office of the Commission to time. It appears that the same might have been misplaced somewhere by the dealing Assistant. The applications of the petitioners to other writ petitions had also been rejected on the ground that they had been received after the last date for receipt of applications was over and those petitioners as well had appeared to the examination under the interim orders passed by this Court.