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In this case, it may be noted that the candidate did not claim initially against the reserved category and submitted the certificate after the admission list was published for the diploma courses, thus after the selection process was completed, by which time some vested rights have accrued in favour of selected candidates and as such the Court declined the relief sought.

6. Balbir SinghVersusState &Ors.2016 (3) JKJ[HC] 235. The petitioner who applied for the post of Constable, J&K Police (Executive) of District Samba was not considered against the RBA Category despite his belonging to RBA Category and having submitted certificate in respect thereto after the cut-off date on 3rd March, 2016.

As discussed above, in Ashok Kumar Sharma (supra), the candidate did not possess the technical qualification as on the last date fixed.

I. The Full Bench of this Court in Mahesh Kumar Raina (supra) has also taken a similar view in allowing belated submission of certificate with the caveat as observed in Ankush Singh Mankotia(supra) that best efforts must be made by the candidate to obtain the certificate before the cut-off date.

In our view, the caveat placed by the Full Bench of this Court in Ankush Singh Mankotia (supra) is to ensure that no candidate is negligent in obtaining the certificate. Thus, non-submission of the requisite certificate should not be because of any utter negligence or undue delay, which would depend on the facts of each case. This is for the reason that because of the laches on the part of an applicant, there should not be scope for causing prejudice to the rights of other candidates which may have accrued to them after the selection process is completed and select list published.