Court No. - 3
Case :- WRIT - A No. - 8903 of 2018 Petitioner :- Anjali Singh And Another Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 2 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Hari Mohan Srivastava,Hari Prakash Singh Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.,M.N. Singh
Hon'ble Pankaj Mithal,J. Hon'ble Saral Srivastava,J.
Heard Sri H.M. Srivastava, learned counsel for the petitioners and Sri F.A. Ansari, learned counsel for the U.P. Public Service Commission.
The petitioners have applied on-line pursuant to the advertisement no.2/2017-18 issued by the U.P. Public Service Commission. The aforesaid advertisement provides that in addition to on-line application, the candidates have to submit hard copy of the same alongwith the documents in respect thereof by a particular date and in case the documents are not so submitted, the candidature would stand rejected. The petitioners admittedly submitted the hard copy and the documents after prescribed date.
In view of the above, that the petitioners have preferred this petition seeking direction to accept the hard copy and the documents and to treat their candidature as valid.
A Full Bench of this Court in the case of Rajendra Patel Vs. State of U.P. And Another 2015(8) ADJ 219 has clearly laid down that where the Commission in addition to the on-line applications require the candidates to submit hard copy also and the last date is prescribed for it, the candidate is required to comply with the said condition strictly and if the hard copy is not delivered to the Commission within the time provided, the submission of the application would not be a valid one and the Court in such circumstances cannot direct that such an application should be entertained.
We have already dismissed Writ -A No.-8715 of 2018 (Jayadeep Garewal Vs. State of U.P. and two others) vide order dated 28.3.2018 in view of the above Full Bench decision.
In view of the aforesaid, as the hard copy of the application sent by the petitioners was not delivered to the Commission within the time prescribed it was rightly not accepted and this Court is not supposed to issue any direction for entertaining it beyond the time prescribed. Accordingly, the petition lacks merit and is dismissed. In case the petitioners have suffered any loss and are advised, they may pursue the remedy so as to claim damages.
Order Date :- 29.3.2018 S.Sharma