RAM BADAN SINGH Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) IN both the cases, as petitioner is common and common question of law involved, they were heard together and are being disposed of by this common order.

(2.) IN WP (C) No. 942 of 2003, the petitioner has challenged the cut off date of 1st August, 2002 as fixed to count the minimum age of eligibility of 22 years for appointment to the post of Assistant Engineer in Public Health Engineering Department (PHED for short) and notified vide Advertisement No. 12/02 -03 with further prayer to direct the respondents to decrease the minimum age limit, as mentioned in Clause -IV of the advertisement aforesaid and to accept the application of the petitioner for consideration of his case for appointment against the post of Assistant Engineer along with others.

(3.) ACCORDING to the petitioner, there is absolutely no legal reasoning or valid basis for fixing the minimum age limit of 22 years on a particular day of the previous year, rather when the advertisement itself is being published in the year 2003, the JPSC should have either fixed the minimum age requirement as 21 years as being done in all other competitive examinations or should have fixed such minimum age requirement as on the last date of submission of application.