HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD SPECIAL APPEAL No. - 936 of 2025 Court No. - 21 HON'BLE MANOJ KUMAR GUPTA, J. HON'BLE SIDDHARTH NANDAN, J. 1. The present intra-court appeal is directed against the order of learned Single Judge dated 03rd September, 2025 by which Writ-A No. 13020 of 2025 filed by the appellant-petitioner which has been dismissed. The claim of the appellant-petitioner on the post of Mukhya Sevika under EWS category has been rejected endorsing the stand taken by U.P. State Subordinate Services Selection Commission, the recruiting agency, that the appellant-petitioner did not possess EWS certificate for the relevant year. 2. The last date for submitting the application forms was 24.08.2022. Under paragraph 8.3 of the advertisement the requirement was for filing certificate, which had been issued up to the last date of submitting applications or last date of the advertisement. The appellant-petitioner filed two certificates; one is dated 27.09.2021, it is an income certificate and is stated to be valid for three years, the other is EWS certificate dated 05.10.2021 given on basis of income of the financial year 2020-21. 3. Learned counsel for the appellant-petitioner submits that both the certificates were filed by the appellant-petitioner before respondent no. 3 at the time of document verification. However, she has been illegally non suited. 4. Sri Siddharth Singhal, learned counsel for respondent no. 3 submits that the certificate dated 27.09.2021 is income certificate and not EWS certificate. He has invited our attention towards the other certificate dated Versus Counsel for Appellant(s) : S.R. Pandey Counsel for Respondent(s) : C.S.C., Siddharth Singhal Pooja Singh .....Appellant(s) State Of U.P. And 2 Others .....Respondent(s) 05.10.2021 in submitting that the said certificate is EWS certificate but it was on basis of income of financial year 2020-21, whereas the income certificate for the financial year 2021-22 i.e. period starting from 01 April, 2021 to 31st March, 2022 was the relevant period for which certificate should have been filed. 5. As it is not disputed that the last date for submitting applications under the advertisement was 24.08.2022 and therefore, the relevant period was the financial year 2021-22 i.e. 01st April, 2021 to 31st March, 2022. However, the EWS certificate filed by the petitioner related to financial year 2020-21 i.e. 01st April, 2020 to 31st March, 2021. 6. The other certificate admittedly is not EWS certificate but only income certificate. 7. The EWS reservation is given to economically weaker section of the society. The income of a candidate may keep fluctuating. Therefore, the EWS certificate for the corresponding previous financial year alone would be relevant. Thus, we find no illegality in the stand taken by respondent no. 3. Accordingly, we also do not find any error in the judgement of learned Single Judge. 8. The appeal lacks merit and is dismissed. October 13, 2025 gp SPLA No. 936 of 2025 2 (Siddharth Nandan,J.) (Manoj Kumar Gupta,J.) Digitally signed by :- GANESH PRAKASH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad