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(f) Upper age limit shall also be relaxable upto two years in respect of green card holder candidates under the Family Welfare Programme.
(g)The General upper age limit shall be relaxable upto five years in respect of awarded superior caste partners of a couple under the inter caste marriage inceptive Programme of the Tribal, Scheduled Castes, and Backward Classes Welfare Department.
(h) The upper age limit shall also be relax able upto five years in respect of candidates holding 'Vikram Award'
(i) The upper age limit shall be relax able upto a maximum of 33 years of age in respect of candidates (who are employees) of Madhya Pradesh State Corporation/Boards.
(j) The upper age limit shall be relaxed in case of voluntary Home-Guards for the period of service rendered by them subject to the limit of 8 years, but in no case their age should exceed 3 years.

Note (1) Candidates who are admitted to the selection under the age concession mentioned in sub-clause(i) and (ii) of clause (c) and clause(i) above shall not be eligible for appointment if after submitting the application they resign from the service either before or after the selection. They will however continue to be eligible if they are retrenched from the service or post after submitting the application.

We may add here that Mr. Ajit Kumar Sinha, learned senior counsel for the appellant had also drawn our attention to States Service Examination Rules, dated June 9th, 2003 (Examination Rules, 2003). He submitted that the examination in-question was conducted as per those Rules. These Rules are applicable to the post of Dy.S.P. as well and Rule 5 thereof deals with eligibility conditions. Apart from prescribing nationality, minimum educational qualification etc., It specifically lays down provision relating to age of the candidates. Though, the minimum of age of 21 years and maximum of age 30 years as on first January next following the date of commencement of the competitive examination is stipulated therein, proviso to this provision of age empowers the State Government to vary the lower and upper age limits for any of the services included in these Rules looking to the exigencies of services. This Rule also makes provision for relaxation in the upper age limit in certain cases. What is relevant for us is that for women candidates, a provision is specifically made providing that as per Rules, 1997, 10 years age relaxation would be given to women candidates, as is clear from the said provision which reads as under:

(b) Notwithstanding the fact that Rules, 2000 do not contain any provision for relaxation qua women candidates, whether a relaxation would still be available to women candidates under Rules, 1997?

There are two incidental facets of question no. (b), which are as follows:

(i) Whether Rules, 1997 are applicable, which make special provision for relaxation in upper age limit by 10 years in respect of women candidates?
(ii) Whether Examination Rules, 2003 which specifically contain a provision for applicability of Rules, 1997 would be treated as applicable for the examination in-question?