'Let The Exam Go Through' : Supreme Court Dismisses Plea To Modify Order Granting Upper-Age Relaxation In DJSE

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea seeking to change the cut-off of "Not Born Before 01.01.1989" for General Category Candidates in the Delhi Judicial Service Exam as "Not Born Before 01.01.1988".The Miscellaneous Application sought a modification of the Top Court's order dated March 14, 2022 with regard to relaxation of upper age limit in the Delhi Judicial Service Exam and also a change in the Corrigendum notification issued by the Delhi High Court based on the March 14 order.On March 14, the Court had relaxed the upper-age limit of 32 years for Delhi Judicial Service Exam (DJS) and 45 years for the Delhi Higher Judicial Service Examinations (DHJSE) of 2022 for those candidates, who were eligible in 2020 and 2021 but have become age-barred this year.The Court had granted the relaxation for the 2022 recruitments taking into account the fact that exams were not held in 2020 and 2021 due to institutional reasons and COVID-19 pandemic respectively. The last exams were held in 2019. The Delhi High Court also agreed to grant this relaxation with respect to upper-age limit for such candidates.Following the March 14 order, the Registrar General of Delhi High Court on March 16 had issued a corrigendum. As per the corrigendum, candidates belonging in the general category not born before January 1, 1989 were eligible to apply.The applicant sought for substituting the cut-off for general category as not born before January 1, 1988. The matter was listed before the bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Surya Kant.When the matter was called for hearing, Senior Advocate ADN Rao appearing for Delhi High Court submitted that an IA had been moved seeking modification of Court's order."How can this be done in disposed of Writ? If one person comes here, everyone will start moving," remarked Justice Chandrachud. Appearing for the applicant, Advocate Aditya Singh submitted that the issue was with regards to the order and the subsequent corrigendum. He further added that the Date of Birth for the eligibility of general category of candidates was "not before January 1, 1989". He further added that the applicants were 32 in 2020 and because of the order, 3 different set rules were there for 3 different years.The bench while expressing its disinclination to entertain the application, said, "Let the examination go through. These kinds of MA's here we'll not entertain. We're dismissing this."Case Title: Delhi High Court v Devina SharmaClick Here To Read/Download Order

'Let The Exam Go Through' : Supreme Court Dismisses Plea To Modify Order Granting Upper-Age Relaxation In DJSE

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