that suitability and eligibility of candidates have to be considered with reference to the last date for receiving the applications, unless the notification calling for applications itself specifies such a date. However, a different note as struck by the Apex Court in the ruling in Ashok Kumar Sharma v. Chander Shekhar, reported in 1993 Supp. (2) SCC 611 [judgment dated 18.12.1992 in Civil Appeal Nos.5407-08 of 1992], wherein it was held by the majority among the learned Judges that if the applicant had possessed all the prescribed qualifications at least on the date of interview, for the direct recruitment selection, if not on the last date of submission of application, then it is only in the interest of wider selection to entertain applications of the candidates, who did not possess the requisite qualifications on the date of the application, but happened to possess the same at least as on the date of interview, despite express instructions in the advertisement that such application would not be entertained, etc. Later, the said judgment dated 18.12.1992 of the Supreme Court in Civil Appeal Nos.5407-08 of 1992 [reported in 1993 Supp.(2) SCC 611] was impugned by filing Review Petitions before the Apex Court, which led to judgment dated 10th March, 1997, in those Review Petitions, which led to the ruling Ashok Kumar Sharma v. Chander Shekhar, reported in (1997)
