RANCHI, India, June 16 -- Jharkhand High Court issued the following order on May 15:

Heard learned counsel for the parties.

The petitioners in the present batch of writ petitions have approached this Court with common grievances, thus all matters have been taken up together with the consent of the parties.

The issue raised in these batch matters is that the petitioners had applied for appointment to the post of Lady Supervisor in pursuance of Advertisement No. 14/2023 and they do possess the prescribed qualification as per the Jharkhand Child Development Non-Gazetted Employees (Lady Supervisor) Service Cadre (Appointment, Promotion and Service Conditions) Rules, 2019 (hereinafter referred to as the Rules of 2019) and the Jharkhand Child Development Non-Gazetted Employees (Lady Supervisor) Service Cadre (Appointment, Promotion and Service Conditions) Rules, (Amendment) Rules, 2021 (hereinafter referred to as the Rules of 2021) i.e. Graduation with any one of the three subjects i.e. Sociology or Psychology or Home Science from a recognized University. For brevity, the facts of W.P.(S) No. 4597 of 2025 is referred.

It is the case of the Petitioners that they were duly permitted to participate in the recruitment process and appear at the competitive examination. The Petitioners were also declared as successful as per merit and thereafter they were called for documents verification but their candidature has been arbitrarily rejected on the ground of not studying the subject for all three years, even though such requirement was never mentioned either in the Recruitment Rules or even in the Advertisement.

Mr. Ajit Kumar, Ld. Sr. Counsel representing the respective petitioners in these batch of writ petitions has led the arguments. He has informed the Court that when the matter was first taken up 28.08.2026 an issue was raised by this Court as to whether the reservation of 100% of the posts only for women was a permissible constitutional exercise and thereafter the matter was referred to the Division Bench vide order dated 19.12.2025. Accordingly, the matters were placed before the Division Bench and vide order dated 19.03.2026 which was pronounced on 24.03.2026, the Division Bench has held that the provision of reserving 100% posts of Supervisors for females is not violative of Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution of India and thereafter these petitions were returned to the learned Single Judge for a decision on the issues raised by the petitioners regarding their exclusion from consideration for the posts of Lady Supervisors.

*Rest of the document can be viewed at: (https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/ecourtindiaHC/cases/display_pdf.php?filename=A9S7c5LDIsB6RXaCf816xyCUeWfQOnj52vX1EQbKB2V2bUV1GGFsXV4PZxrSCY6Q&caseno=WPC/5736/2025&cCode=1&cino=JHHC010314872025&state_code=7&appFlag=)

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