PARAS MAL JAIN Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE question involved in all above mentioned writ petitions is analogous and, therefore, they are heard and being decided together by this common order.

(2.) FACTS, in brief, relevant for adjudication of the question involved in the writ petitions are that vide advertisement No. 2/pariksha "rajya-Adhi/98-99 dated 10. 5. 1999 the Rajasthan Public Service Commission (hereinafter shall be referred to as `the RPSC') invited applications for filling up the posts of Rajasthan State & Subordinate Services for the years 1997-98 and 1998-99 under the Rajasthan state and Subordinate Services (Direct Recruitment by Combined Competitive Examination) Rules, 1999 (for short `the Rules of 1999' ). pursuant to the aforesaid advertisement the petitioners submitted their applications as general category candidates and appeared in three tier examination scheme i. e. Preliminary. Mains and Viva-Voce examination.

(3.) IN the Circular issued by the State on 11. 5. 2000 a distinction has been drawn between the woman candidates i. e. woman candidates who fall within the relaxations given to woman candidates under the Rules, as woman candidates and the woman candidates who do not claim benefit of relaxation given to them under the Rules of 1999. The woman candidates who have not taken benefit of relaxation under the Rules of 1999, being the woman candidates, have been treated as the candidate who have applied outside the reservation fixed for the women candidates and the women candidates who have taken the benefit of relaxation are treated as applicants within the reservation. It is this distinction drawn by the State Government by Circular dated 31. 5. 2000 is under challenge.