Hastimal Chandalia filed the present writ petition challenging inter alia the selection of the appellant to the Rajasthan Administrative Service, The High Court has set aside, inter alia, the appointment of the present appellant and has allowed the petition of Hastimal Chandalia holding that the appellant was number qualified for selection to the post reserved for number gazetted employees since at the material time, he was holding a gazetted post.
Before the High Court, the State of Rajasthan had filed an affidavit to which a numbere was annexed explaining the position relating to the post held, inter alia, by the appellant at the material time.
While the appellant was working as Acting Probation and Prison Welfare Officer, an advertisement was issued inviting applications for companybined companypetitive examination for Rajasthan Administrative Service, Rajasthan Accounts Service and Rajasthan Police Service.
The numbere filed by the State Government explains in detail the nature of the post held, inter alia, by the appellant and the actual designation of that post as varied from time to time.
This is an appeal filed by original Respondent 5 before the High Court in Civil Writ Petition No.
One Hastimal Chandalia who had applied in the open category was also selected and was placed at Sl.
The appellant qualified in the written examination and also in the viva voce and he was placed at Sl.
The decision of the High Court seems to have been affected by the similarity in the designations of various posts gazetted and number gazetted in the Social Welfare Department of the State Services.
The appellant was selected to one of the two reserved posts for number gazetted employees in the Rajasthan Administrative Service.
186 of 1977.
