Baldev Prasad & Ors. v. State of Rajasthan & Ors.

[2026:RJ-JP:43587]

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN
BENCH AT JAIPUR

S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 18993/2024
CNR: RJHC021067182024 | URN: CW / 39863U / 2024

Baldev Prasad and three others ----Petitioners
Versus
(1) State Of Rajasthan, Through Principal Secretary, Department Of Medical Health Services, Government Of Rajasthan, Government Secretariat Jaipur Rajasthan. (2) Director, Medical And Health Services, Rajasthan, Jaipur. (3) State Institute Of Health And Family Welfare (Sihfw), Jhalana Institutional Area, Jaipur Through Its Director. ----Respondents

Connected With
S.B. Civil Writ Petition Nos. 6421/2024, 19014/2024, 19052/2024, 19078/2024, 19261/2024, 19264/2024, 19269/2024, 19270/2024, 19453/2024, 19482/2024, 19517/2024, 19588/2024, 19690/2024, 30/2025, 250/2025, 262/2025, 299/2025, 305/2025, 306/2025, 331/2025, 352/2025, 484/2025, 550/2025, 556/2025, 559/2025, 598/2025, 647/2025, 768/2025, 970/2025, 1028/2025, 1075/2025, 1180/2025, 1419/2025, 1449/2025, 1456/2025, 1814/2025, 2822/2025, 12276/2025, 13247/2025, 12741/2026, 12517/2026

For Petitioner(s): Mr. Laxmi Kant Malpura; Mr. Ram Pratap Saini with Mr. Aamir Khan; Mr. Giri Raj Rajoria; Ms. Sudesh Panwar; Mr. Pradeep Singh with Ms. Prachi; Mr. Ramalesh Sharma; Mr. Akshit Gupta; Ms. Pragya Seth; Mr. Kamalesh Sharma; Mr. Nakul Bansal; Mr. Shreyansh Dhariwal & Mr. Pallav Pancholi; Mr. Naveen Dhuwan with Mr. Pradeep Bohaliya; Mr. Fouji Chawla; Ms. Nikita Singhal for Mr. Inder Raj Saini; Mr. Punit Singhvi; Ms. Urja Sharma; Mr. Ajay Gupta; Mr. Harendra Neel with Mr. Prashant Tada; Mr. Sunil Kumar Singodiya; Mr. Tanveer Ahamad with Mr. Iliyas Khan, Mr. Rakesh Kumar Dhawan, Ms. Harshita Sharma & Mr. Pradhyuman Parmar; Mr. Hitesh Bagri with Mr. Nadeem Mazahir
For Respondent(s): Mr. Archit Bohra, AGC with Mr. Rahul Verma

[NyayVidhan notes: Stored from the official Rajasthan High Court PDF of the common order (hcraj file 205200064212024_3.pdf, the copy filed in S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 6421/2024; 37 pages; uploaded 30.10.2026). (1) The paragraph numbers 1-27 are the Court's own. (2) Pages 1-21 of the PDF carry the cause titles of all 42 writ petitions with the petitioners' parentage, ages and addresses: here the lead cause title is abridged (the four petitioners are shown as 'Baldev Prasad and three others') and the 41 connected petitions, which the order lists in two groups each headed 'Connected With', are shown by case number only, in the printed order. In S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 19482/2024 two selected candidates are arrayed as respondents Nos. 4 and 5; they are not named here. (3) The circular of the Medical and Health (Group-3) Department reproduced in paragraph 6 is in Hindi; its legacy-font (Kruti Dev) text was converted to Unicode by NyayVidhan and checked against the rendered pages, and its table is shown inline. The clause label after 'condition' in paragraph 4 is printed in the same Hindi font ('No.ज'). (4) Quoted matter (the prayer in paragraph 3, the circular in paragraph 6, the job responsibilities of Nurse Grade-I and II in paragraph 13, paragraphs 9-10 of Warade in paragraph 19 and the directions in paragraph 21) is kept inline within the quoting paragraph. (5) The text is otherwise as printed, including 'order/circular dated 25.07.2023' followed by 'the order/circular dated 25.04.2023' (paragraph 6; the reproduced circular is dated 25/04/23), 'the second proviso appended the Rule 19' (paragraph 5), 'three years in regular recruitment' (paragraph 7), the COVID-19 period printed twice as '22.03.2022 to 13.02.2022' (paragraph 8; the circular gives 22.3.2020 to 13.2.2022), 'Pratices' and '9) Ensuring' in the quoted job responsibilities (paragraph 13), 'for the purpose of grant bonus marks' (paragraph 15) and 'If the case of the petitioners fall' (paragraph 23). Page furniture (running heads, page numbers, upload/download stamps, the staff line and the TCPDF line) is removed. The PDF is authoritative.]

[Source: Rajasthan High Court, hcraj.nic.in — order dated 27.10.2026.]

JUSTICE ANOOP KUMAR DHAND

Order

27/10/2026

Reportable

1. Since common question of law and facts are involved in all these petitions, hence, with the consent of counsel of the parties, their arguments have been heard together and the same are being decided by this common order.

2. For the sake of convenience, the facts pleaded in SB Civil Writ Petition No.18993/2024 have been taken into consideration.

3. The instant writ petition has been preferred with the following prayer: “a) By an appropriate writ, order and direction in the nature thereof the respondents may kindly be directed to consider the experience of the petitioners, award bonus marks and also to consider the candidature of the petitioners and include name of the petitioners in the Final Merit List dated 6.12.2024 and accordingly give appointment to the petitioners on the post of Officer in pursuance to Nursing Officer Recruitment 2023 in their respective category on merits with all consequential benefits. b) Any other relief as this Hon'ble Court may deem fit and proper be also passed in favour of the Petitioners.”

4. The brief facts of the case are that an advertisement has been issued by the respondents on 05.05.2023 for appointment on the post of Nursing Officer. As per the terms and conditions of the advertisement, a candidate must have educational qualification of: I. Senior Secondary or its equivalent; II. GNM Course or its equivalent qualification from an institute recognized by the State Government, and III. Registered with the Rajasthan Nursing Council. In addition to the above, as per the condition No.ज, those candidates who are having experience of performing the work and discharging the duties in various schemes of the State of Rajasthan would be entitled to get bonus marks.

5. As per the second proviso appended the Rule 19 of the Rajasthan Medical and Health Subordinate Service Rules, 1965 (for short, ‘the Rules of 1965’), all the applications of the applicants are required to be scrutinized. In case of appointment to the posts other than Pharmacist, which are not falling under the purview of the Commission, merit shall be prepared by the Appointing Authority on the basis of the marks obtained in such qualifying academic examination or professional examination or both, as specified in the schedule appended to these Rules and such bonus marks, as may be specified by the State Government, having regard to the length of experience of similar work under the Government, National Rural Health Mission, Medi Care Relief Society, Chief Minister BPL Jeevan Raksha Kosh, AIDS Control Society, Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP), Jhalawar Hospital and Medical College Society, Integrated Disease Surveillance Project or State Institute for Health and Family Welfare.

6. The Department of Medical and Health, Government of Rajasthan vide its order/circular dated 25.07.2023 has formulated a scheme for providing bonus marks to those candidates, who are working in the aforesaid schemes. For ready reference, the order/circular dated 25.04.2023 is reproduced as under: ”राजस्थान सरकार चिकित्सा एवं स्वास्थ्य (ग्रुप-3) विभाग क्रमांक :- आईडी-92/चिस्वा/ग्रुप-3/2023 दिनांक : 25/04/23 आदेश राजस्थान चिकित्सा एवं स्वास्थ्य अधीनस्थ सेवा नियम 1965 (यथा संशोधित) के नियम 19 में राजस्थान लोक सेवा आयोग की परिधि (Purview) में नहीं आने वाले पदों में सीधी भर्ती के लिए वरीयता सूची तैयार करने हेतु राज्य सरकार द्वारा अवधारित बोनस अंक दिए जाने का प्रावधान है। इस क्रम में राज्य सरकार द्वारा आदेश क्रमांक अराजपत्रित/भर्ती प्रकोष्ठ /एफ-812/2022/1138 दिनांक 15.11.2022 जारी किया जाकर नियमित भर्तियों में पात्र अभ्यर्थियों को एक वर्ष की पूर्ण अवधि पर 10, दो वर्ष की पूर्ण अवधि पर 20 एवं तीन वर्ष की पूर्ण अवधि पर अधिकतम 30 बोनस अंक का प्रावधान रखा गया है। कोविड परिस्थितियों के दृष्टिगत, कोविड अवधि दिनांक 22.3.2020 से 13.2.2022 के दौरान विभिन्न चिकित्सकीय सेवाओं में कार्यरत रहे कार्मिकों को विशेष परिस्थिति में कार्य करने को दृष्टिगत रखते हुए, कार्मिक विभाग की अधिसूचना 23.05.2022 के अनुरूप समरूप कार्य के आधार निम्नलिखित श्रेणियों में आने वाले संविदा/तदर्थ/आवश्यक अस्थाई आधार पर आर.एम.आर.एस./प्लेसमेंट एजेन्सी/एन.जी.ओ./पी.पी.पी./108/एम.एम.यू./एम.एम.वी. के माध्यम से कार्यरत कार्मिकों को वर्ष 2023-24 (मार्च, 2024) तक की जाने वाली भर्तियों में वर्णित तालिका के अनुसार संशोधित बोनस अंक देय होंगे:- 1) ऐसे कार्मिक जो कि कोविड अवधि से पूर्व से नियुक्त थे तथा जिनके द्वारा कोविड-19 के दौरान 22 मार्च 2020 से 13 फरवरी 2022 के दौरान भी संविदा/तदर्थ आवश्यक अस्थायी आधार पर कार्य किया गया है तथा वर्तमान में निरन्तर कार्यरत है अथवा नहीं है, एवं 2) ऐसे कार्मिक जो कोविड-19 दौरान 22 मार्च 2020 से 13 फरवरी 2022 के दौरान संविदा/तदर्थ आवश्यक अस्थायी आधार पर नियुक्त हुए है तथा वर्तमान में निरन्तर कार्यरत है अथवा नहीं है को वर्ष 2023 से 31 मार्च 2024 की भर्तियों हेतु [table: संविदा/आवश्यक अस्थाई आधार पर कार्य अवधि | बोनस अंक — 1. दो वर्ष से कम | 15 — 2. दो वर्ष या इससे अधिक किन्तु तीन वर्ष से कम | 20 — 3. तीन वर्ष या इससे अधिक | 30] शेष समस्त कार्मिक जो कोविड अवधि के दौरान कार्यरत नहीं रहे है अर्थात दिनांक 21.3.2020 तक ही कार्यरत रहे है अथवा दिनांक 13.2.2022 के पश्चात नियुक्त किये गये है, को आदेश क्रमांक 1138 दिनांक 15.11.2022 के अनुसार 10, 20 एवं 30 बोनस अंक देय होंगे। यह सक्षम स्तर से अनुमोदित है। आज्ञा से, (नरेन्द्र बंसल) संयुक्त शासन सचिव ”

7. As per the aforesaid order/circular, the eligible candidate who has completed a period of one year would be entitled to receive 10 bonus marks; such candidates who have completed a period of two years would be entitled to get 20 bonus marks; and those candidates who have completed three years in regular recruitment would be entitled to get 30 bonus marks.

8. It is worthy to note here that those candidates, appointed prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and have served during COVID-19 pandemic period from 22.03.2022 to 13.02.2022 currently working or not; and those candidates who were appointed during COVID-19 pandemic from 22.03.2022 to 13.02.2022 irrespective of the fact whether they are currently working or not, would be entitled to get 15 bonus marks if working period of their contractual/urgent temporary appointment is less than two years; 20 bonus marks if working period of their contractual/ urgent temporary appointment is two years or more but less than three years; and 30 bonus marks if working period of their contractual/urgent temporary appointment is three years or more respectively.

9. The instant bunch of writ petitions has been preferred by several petitioners on the basis of the duties performed by them. It is the case of the petitioners that they are having similar experience of the same work, as performed by the Nursing Officers and the competent authority has also issued experience certificate certifying their work in those schemes, but in spite of having the valid experience certificate, the respondents are not considering their experience, as valid experience for the purpose of getting benefit of bonus marks. Hence, under these circumstances, they have approached this Court by way of filing the instant writ petitions seeking appropriate directions.

10. Per contra, learned counsel appearing on behalf of the respondents opposed the arguments, raised by counsel for the petitioners and submitted that mere working in any of the schemes, as mentioned in Rule 19 of the Rules of 1965, does not entitle the petitioners to get the benefit of bonus marks, as the petitioners have not performed the duties and works assigned to the Nursing Officer. Hence, under these circumstances, the petitioners are not entitled to get the bonus marks and the instant writ petitions are liable to be rejected.

11. Heard and considered the submissions made at the Bar and perused the material available on the record.

12. Perusal of the record indicates that in terms of Rule 19 of the Rules of 1965, the candidates who have performed their duties in any of the scheme, are entitled to get bonus marks as per the experience gained by them in respective years i.e. one year, two years or three years and more. Several kinds of documents have been placed on record by different petitioners on the basis of which they are seeking benefit of bonus marks and the respondent State is opposing their prayer on a technical count that they have not performed the duties of the Nursing Officer.

13. It is the case of the State that the job responsibilities of Health Personnel working on the post of Nurse Gr.I and Nurse Gr. II has been prepared by the State Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Rajasthan, which defines the work and responsibilities of Nurse Gr.I and Gr. II. For ready reference, the same is reproduced as under: “Job Responsibilities of Nurse Grade-I and II Reports to: Medical Officer Incharge Responsible for: 1. Patient Care 2. Administration 3. Teaching and Training 4. Quality Assurance and Infection Prevention 5. Implementation of Act and Legislations 6. Other Brief Description of Duties and Responsibilities: 1. Patient Care a) Take daily detailed rounds of the Ward, twice in a day. b) Attend and assess all the patients, enquire about their condition, comfort and diet, complaints and compliance for Medicine intake. c) Accompany MO I/C for rounds of wards and note instructions. d) Going around the wards periodically to ensure that staffs are alertly present at their duty position and that patients are comfortable. e) Carry out the orders and instructions of MO and Matron, relating to the treatment of patients and management of ward. f) Fill up all forms in case sheets with necessary details, enter investigation reports date wise, enter clinical information e.g. temperature, BP, input-output charts, other patient charts and checklists when required. g) Check all the case sheets, attach extra case sheets and prepare lab forms for investigation. h) Collect investigation results and attach them to case sheet/patient file. i) Completing case sheets of discharge/transfer/death/LAMA patients. j) Completing daily treatment book, report book, diet sheet and other records. k) Take blood sample for investigations, check specimens, enter in specimen book and send to Lab timely and ensure that specimens have been received in Lab in good condition. l) Carry out bedside investigations like ECG, Blood sugar etc. m) Record vital signs, Height and Weight of new cases on admission. n) Give injections and record them as prescription order. o) Administer injections/tablets or liquid medicines requiring care in giving e.g. oily medications. p) Maintain all procedure trays in readiness. q) Maintain emergency trays and other duty room trays, sterilizer, instruments in working condition by getting indents from sister or getting repairs done in case of a break down. r) Make beds of serious patients and help students make beds, supplying necessary linen. s) Ensure that serious patients going for investigations i.e. Sonography, ECG, X-ray, and referral are accompanied by ward boy or sweeper. Listen to patient's problem and help to solve them through various means. t) Write the diet register and supervise distribution of diet. Ensure that special diets are served and eaten by the patient. u) Ensure that a discharged patient goes home with proper understanding of the follow-up procedure and details of the diet, medication, exercises and other relevant information/health education as required. v) Immediately inform the duty doctor / treating doctor in case of any emergency / a patient dying during duty time. w) All concerned records, reports must be completed and handed over to the next shift staff nurse. x) Ensure universal safety precautions during all patient care activities. Never forget hand washing. y) Take special care whenever posted in following areas: Area Special Care A)Labour Room Ensure Asepsis in LR Follow Standard Labour room Pratices and procedures. Conduct normal, Difficult and abnormal deliveries, Ensure essential new born care, special care of premature and low birth weight babies b)Mental Hospital Prepare Patient for ECT and assisting doctor with it. Care of mentally ill/mentally retarded clients (Where such Unit exists). c) ICU Ensure Asepsis. Follow standard procedure for infection procedure. Ensure total patient care, helping with ECG or any other investigation procedure. d) Emergency department/CPR unit Total patient care, Maintain patient line, continuous monitoring of ECG, ventilator etc Send specimens for prescribed investigation and inform results to the doctor in time. Assist in life saving procedures/Perform CPR Note: If posted at CHC/PHC, carry out fieldwork including immunization services. As and when assigned by the in-charge, in addition to medical care services. If Posted in OT i) Prepare patients for operations and see that the patient is sent to operation theatre with all necessary papers and medications. ii) Counsel pre operative patients to reduce their tension and give them confidence. iii) Get patients clothes and bed linen changed as and when necessary. iv) Care of instruments and gloves. See sterilization trays and trolleys are ready to use. v) Keep I/V or blood transfusion tray ready and help the doctor with the procedure. vi) Ensure that all investigation specimens are sent to the proper laboratory with forms. vii) Observe all patients conditions and report changes to ward in-charge and/or the doctor. viii) Carry out nursing procedures for all serious patients. ix) Help newly posted students to carry out their nursing procedures. 2. Administrative a) Help the ward in-charge to carry out her/his work. b) Supervision and guidance of all subordinates/junior staff c) Work in place of the ward in-charge in his/her absence. d) Ensure maintenance of general cleanliness of the ward and the Facilities (Toilets). e) Maintain up to date inventory of scheduled drugs/poison. f) Take over from previous duty nurse, all new and serious patients, instruments, supplies drugs, etc. g) Supervise medicine given by students or do it in case there are no students. h) Supervise nursing care being given by nursing student. i) Maintain good inter-personal relations with all other staff. j) Information of MLC cases to Medical Jurist and unit head k) Maintaining BPL patient and DOTS patients record. l) Co-operates in activities related to National Health Program. m) Completes discharge or death ticket of patient before sending it to record room. n) Ensure safe disposal of biomedical waste. o) Reporting of all OPD related work should be done. 3. Teaching and Training a) Orient and instruct the newly posted staff for their work responsibility (for Nurse grade-I) b) Instruct students in their work and orient newly posted students. c) Carry out health teaching for individual or group of patients. d) Instruct student specially the newly appointed ones in the correct ways of handing bed pans, urinals, sputum cups, kidney trays, soiled dressings, bandages, binders, lines etc. e) Provide for and demonstrate methods of dis-infection and cleaning. f) Participate/Co-operated in CNE/ in service training of health personnel on various health programs including RCH. 4.Quality assurance and infection prevention a) Ensure that equipment, instruments, linen etc are always kept ready for use. b) Ensure that sterilizers are always in working condition and when any repair is required, bring it to the notice of MO I/C. c) Ensure that linen, instruments and dressing materials are sterilized effectively and timely and that they are kept under aseptic condition. d) Ensure sterility of equipment, Operation Theatre, Labour room. e) Ensure that anaesthetic gases, oxygen, intravenous infusion fluids, IV Sets and life saving drugs are available in sufficient quantity. f) Bringing to the notice of the Medical Officer any case of breach of discipline or absence of in-patients without permission for necessary action. 9) Ensuring that unauthorized persons do not enter the ward and visitors are not allowed during the non-visiting hours. h) Keep required items (i.e., medicines, phenyl, patient kits etc.) ready for next shift and Night shift use. 5. Implementation of Act and Legislation a) Deal with medico legal cases as per Act and Legislation. b) Keep confidentiality of patients records and information. c) Ensure compliance of all relevant Act and Rules as per annexure No. 2. 6.Others Handing over duty: The person will not leave duty without handing over charge to next person on duty. Before going off duty, the person will- i) Complete their work. ii) Hand over and take over SIL/DIL patients, post operative cases, symptomatic patients, new cases, delivery cases and such other cases requiring attention of Senior Nurse taking over charge, at bedside. iii) Complete the report book. Apart from notes on the condition of the patients, other important matters which may necessary for the information of the MO or for the guidance of specialist and relieving nurse will also be noted in the report book Nurse Grade-l, on shift duty, after taking over as above will also check treatment book and duty report book of wards to acquaint themselves regarding orders for treatment and other instructions in respect of particular patient and ensure that the same are carried out correctly. Carry out other orders as given by competent authority from time to time.”

14. It is the case of the petitioners that their case falls within the above job responsibilities, but the respondents are not treating their functions/experience as valid for getting the benefit of bonus marks.

15. The core controversy involved in these writ petitions is “Whether the work and duties performed by the petitioners, under different Government schemes, can be treated as equivalent to the work and duties performed by the Nursing Officers for the purpose of grant bonus marks.”

16. This Court is not an expert to adjudge and examine the grievance of each singular petitioner and arrive at a definite conclusion that whether duties/functions discharged by him/her under any of the schemes fall within the purview of the job and functions of Nursing Officer or not. Certainly, this task is required to be performed by an expert body of the field.

17. This Court is conscious of the settled principle of law that it cannot function as an expert of any subject matter and such function has to be performed by the field / subject matter expert. Whether the duties of a Nursing staff, working under various schemes of the Government, or other contractual schemes are in any manner identical, similar or distinct from the duties of a regular Nursing Officer, is certainly a technical and factual question, requiring evaluation by persons having domain knowledge in the field of nursing and health administration.

18. This Court, while exercising jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, cannot undertake a comparative assessment of job profiles, work charts and duties of different categories of Nursing Staff. Such exercise essentially falls within the domain of the Health Department and subject matter experts.

19. The Hon’ble Supreme Court in the case of The Maharashtra Public Service Commission through its Secretary vs. Sandeep Shriram Warade and Others reported in 2019 (6) SCC 362 has held that the Court should not sit as an expert over the opinion of experts and where specialized knowledge is required, the matter should be left to the experts. It has been held in para 9 and 10 as under: “9. The essential qualifications for appointment to a post are for the employer to decide. The employer may prescribe additional or desirable qualifications, including any grant of preference. It is the employer who is best suited to decide the requirements a candidate must possess according to the needs of the employer and the nature of work. The court cannot lay down the conditions of eligibility, much less can it delve into the issue with regard to desirable qualifications being at par with the essential eligibility by an interpretive rewriting of the advertisement. Questions of equivalence will also fall outside the domain of judicial review. If the language of the advertisement and the rules are clear, the Court cannot sit in judgment over the same. If there is an ambiguity in the advertisement or it is contrary to any rules or law the matter has to go back to the appointing authority after appropriate orders, to proceed in accordance with law. In no case can the Court, in the garb of judicial review, sit in the chair of the appointing authority to decide what is best for the employer and interpret the conditions of the advertisement contrary to the plain language of the same. 10. The fact that an expert committee may have been constituted and which examined the documents before calling the candidates for interview cannot operate as an estoppel against the clear terms of the advertisement to render an ineligible candidate eligible for appointment.”

20. Considering the controversy involved and in order to avoid any injustice to either side, this Court deems it appropriate to direct the State Government to constitute a Committee comprising of field /subject matter experts to form an opinion on the issue involved.

21. Accordingly, it is directed that: 1. the Principal Secretary, Medical & Health Department, Government of Rajasthan shall constitute a Committee within a period of three weeks, comprising of: (i) Principal Secretary, Department of Medical and Health; (ii) Director (non-gazetted), Department of Medical and Health; (iii) Director, State Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Rajasthan; (iv) Joint Director, Medical and Health (Nodal Officer-Recruitment); (v) Principal, Sawai Man Singh Medical College, Jaipur; (vi) Principal, Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College, Ajmer; (vii) Principal, Jhalawar Medical College, Jhalawar; and (viii) Registrar, Rajasthan Nursing Council, Jaipur. 2. the said Committee shall examine the Job Description, Work Experience Certificates, Appointment Letters, and actual duties performed by the petitioners vis-a-vis the duties prescribed for Nursing Officers, and submit a reasoned report within a period of four weeks thereafter as to whether the work performed by the petitioners can be considered equivalent for grant of bonus marks. 3. The Committee shall afford an opportunity of hearing to the petitioners/receive their representations and shall submit its report within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of certified copy of this order.

22. The State Government shall thereafter take a final decision on entitlement of bonus marks, based on the report of expert committee, within a period of four weeks thereafter, strictly in accordance with law and relevant recruitment rules.

23. If the case of the petitioners fall within the opinion, so framed by the experts, then the respondents would consider the case of each of the petitioners for appointment on the post of Nursing Officer, if they are found otherwise eligible.

24. In case, the experience certificate of any of the petitioner is not found to be in purview of the opinion so framed, he/she would be at liberty to approach this Court again by way of filing fresh petition.

25. For a period of two months from today or till receipt of the report of the expert Committee, the interim order passed in favour of the petitioners shall remain in currency.

26. The claim of the petitioners for receiving bonus marks shall be subject to the final decision to be taken by the Government as per expert opinion.

27. With the aforesaid observations and directions, all the instant writ petitions stand disposed of. The stay applications and all pending applications, if any, also stand disposed of.

(ANOOP KUMAR DHAND),J