now made to lock horns with S.E.B.C. category of candidates. According to them, the Government policy has led to an unnecessary intrusion in the reserved category for E.W.S. candidates and the level playing field, which was earlier available for E.W.S. candidates, has been taken away after the selection process has commenced. In view of law settled by the Supreme Court in a couple of decisions that the rules of the game cannot be changed after the game has commenced, the petitioners primarily have sought for quashing the relevant GRs, which place them at a disadvantageous position, as well as for direction on the MPSC to fill up the posts reserved for the E.W.S. category by candidates belonging to such category only based on their inter-se merit. 3. These writ petitions were moved some time in the middle of last year whereupon several orders have been passed over the past few months. Neither the advocate for the State nor the advocate for the MPSC objected to the maintainability of these writ petitions on the ground that the remedy of the petitioners, at the first instance, lay before the Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal (hereafter “the MAT”, for short) constituted under the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985 (hereafter “the Act”, for short). The writ petitions having been listed before us on 2nd March, 2022, we had expressed in no uncertain terms that the petitioners ought to be relegated to the MAT for relief. An adjournment was prayed on behalf of the petitioners to enable Mr. Rajendra Deshmukh, learned senior advocate, to address us through the virtual platform from Aurangabad. We had granted such prayer and directed listing of all the writ petitions today. It is recorded that on
