Service Law:
Appointment/Recruitment – Age-relaxation for recruitment – Granted to those who had worked or working with the employer Corporation – Entitlement to such relaxation to the employees (respondents) who were working with the employer-Corporation through an outsourcing agency – Held: In view of the terms of the advertisement for the recruitment, the respondents were not entitled to the age relaxation.
Allowing the appeal, the Court
HELD: The record indicates that the respondents were engaged through an outsourcing agency. Going by the terms of the advertisement, the respondents were not entitled to have any age relaxation. The advertisement was issued on 19.12.2017 and the last date for submission of applications was 05.01.2018. Challenge itself was raised by the respondents by filing Writ Petition on 02.01.2018. The Single Judge of the High Court was, therefore, right and justified in rejecting the challenge. By the time the matter came up before the Division Bench, the period was already over. The Division Bench did not consider the submissions whether the respondents could, as a matter of right, claim relaxation in age limit. The assessment made by the Division Bench was completely incorrect. [Paras 8, 9] [527-F-G; 528-A]
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