Sanjay Pant v. Uttarakhand Sachivalay Prashasan Vibhag
Case brief
What is this about?
Uttarakhand High Court; WPSS/1741/2023 with WPSS/1807/2023, WPSS/1830/2023, WPSS/1847/2023; decided 08.09.2025 by Justice Manoj Kumar Tiwari. Over-age candidates for Uttarakhand Public Service Commission Review Officer / Assistant Review Officer recruitment (upper age limit 42 years for general category; last selection held in 2016) sought relaxation of the upper age limit; a coordinate Bench's interim order let them provisionally sit the preliminary examination, but the result declared on 29.02.2024 found them unsuccessful, so the claimed relief did not survive and the writ petitions were dismissed. Keywords: age relaxation, upper age limit, Review Officer, Assistant Review Officer, Uttarakhand Public Service Commission, preliminary examination, interim order, counter affidavit.
What did the court decide?
Since petitioners were declared unsuccessful in the preliminary examination, even though they had been permitted to participate in it pursuant to the interim order, the relief as claimed by petitioners does not survive.