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4. Thereafter, certain candidates who were selected, did not join. In order to fill the said posts, the respondents issued notice on the website calling the candidates of Vimukat Jati to fill up those vacant posts. The petitioners were entitled to appear for the scrutiny of their documents but they missed the said notice and could not appear for the scrutiny of documents and the candidates who appeared for the scrutiny including the private respondents were considered and the remaining vacant posts in the reserved category of Vimukat Jati were filled up as per the merit from the candidates who appeared for scrutiny of documents.

11. Further, the similarly situated candidates as the petitioners appeared for scrutiny and got selected keeping in view their merit position. The petitioners cannot demand a different criteria to be adopted for them for a selection process. On the basis of the same notice published on 09.10.2019, the candidates appeared for scrutiny, hence, as the petitioners missed the bus, the petitioners cannot be allowed to contend that the process adopted to fill up the posts from the reserved category of Vimukat Jati was faulted in any manner. The petitioners should have remained vigilant in order to pursue their claim for the posts in question, which concededly they failed.