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disposal of their applications. As per the procedure prescribed for selection, based on the merit in
written examination, the respondent-KPSC was required to call the candidates for further selection
process in the ratio of 1:5. It was brought to the notice of this Tribunal during the course of the hearing
of these cases, that except the present two applicants in A.No.12391/2002 and 12074/2002 all other
applicants had scored very low marks and therefore they were not within the zone of consideration in
the ratio of 1:5 for including them for further selection process. Therefore, all those applications were
dismissed as infructuous.
3. Presently, we have before us the two applicants who by virtue of their performance in the
written examinations come within the zone of consideration for further selection process viz., physical
efficiency and physical standard tests, however, subject to the final decision in these applications.
4. Therefore, the following decision will be confined to the above two applications only.
5. To understand the issue in a proper perspective, we would like to refer to some of the relevant
factual information which are as follows:
At the behest of the State-Government, the respondent-KPSC, had issued a Notification
bearing No.PSC 1 RTB 98 dated 9.3.1999 inviting applications for the post of 100 Sub-Inspectors
of Excise which is Annexure-A1 in these applications. Among other criteria, the age limits prescribed
in the aforesaid Notification for various categories of applicants are as follows:
The minimum and maximum age for:
1. GM category – 18 to 33 years
2. 2A, 2B, 3A & 3B categories – 18 to 36 years & for
3. SC/ST categories – 18 to 38 years
Karnataka PSC
This recruitment could not go through for the reason that it was questioned by some of the parties
before the High Court of Karnataka and also before this Tribunal and subsequently, Government
withdrew the Employment Notification itself and abandoned the recruitment. Later on, the Government
has amended the Recruitment Rules of 1996 of the Excise Department and issued a Notification
called the Karnataka Excise Services (Recruitment) (Amendment) Rules, 2002 bearing No.DPAR
45 SRD 2001 dated 5.3.2002 which is at Annexure-A4 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘2002 Rules’
for short). As per the said Rules-2002, the age limits prescribed for the post of SIE are as follows: