Supreme Court Upholds Maximum Age Relaxation Rules for EWS & PwD Reserved Categories

A Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court has ruled that statutory age relaxation benefits must be uniformly extended across all preliminary and departmental recruitment examinations.

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In a landmark verdict governing public employment, the Apex Court ruled that rules framed under Article 309 of the Constitution cannot retroactively restrict age relaxations once a notification is formally gazetted. State recruitment commissions are directed to amend recruitment rules accordingly.

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