Mrs. Rekha Chaturvedi vs University Of Rajasthan And Ors on 13 January, 1993
"6. .....The proposition that where
applications are called for prescribing a particular date as
the last date for filing the applications, the eligibility of the
candidates shall have to be judged with reference to that
date and that date alone, is a well-established one. A
person who acquires the prescribed qualification
subsequent to such prescribed date cannot be considered
at all. An advertisement or notification issued/published
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calling for applications constitutes a representation to the
public and the authority issuing it is bound by such
representation. It cannot act contrary to it. One reason
behind this proposition is that if it were known that persons
who obtained the qualifications after the prescribed date
but before the date of interview would be allowed to
appear for the interview, other similarly placed persons
could also have applied. Just because some of the persons
had applied notwithstanding that they had not acquired
the prescribed qualifications by the prescribed date, they
could not have been treated on a preferential basis. Their
applications ought to have been rejected at the inception
itself. This proposition is indisputable and in fact was not
doubted or disputed in the majority judgment. This is also
the proposition affirmed in Rekha Chaturvedi v. University
of Rajasthan. ...."