2025:JHHC:26859 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI WP(S) No.4778 of 2025 ----- Sunny Kumar Gope, son of Kanchu Gope, resident of village Chatakpur Tetri, PO and PS Namkum, District Ranchi … Petitioner(s). Versus 1.The State of Jharkhand 2.The Secretary, Department of Personnel, Administrative Reforms and Official Language (Rajbhasa), Govt. of Jharkhand, Ranchi, PO and PS Dhurwa, District Ranchi 3.The Chairman, Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission, Ranchi, at Kalinagar Chaibagan, Namkum, PO and PS Namkum, District Ranchi … Respondent(s). CORAM : SRI ANANDA SEN, J. ------ For the Petitioner(s) : Mr. Arun Kumar, Advocate For the State : Ms. Rishi Bharati, AC to AAG-III For the JSSC : Mr. Sanjoy Piprawall, Advocate Mr. Prince Kumar, Advocate Mr. Rakesh Ranjan, Advocate Mr. Jay Prakash, Advocate …...... 02 /04.09.2025: Heard the parties. 2. The petitioner in this writ petition has prays for the following reliefs: “for issuance of an appropriate writ/writs, Order/Orders or direction/directions in the nature of Certiorari for quashing of the Advertisement No.24/2024 (Annexure-1) to the extent of cutoff date of the maximum age limit fixed as 37 years as on 1/8/2024 for the member of Backward and other Backward class for appointment on the post of Stenographer in Secretariat Government of Jharkhand by which the Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission (Respondent No.3) invited online application for appointment for the post of Stenographer in Secretariat, Government of Jharkhand, wherein maximum age has been fixed maximum age 37 years as on 1/8/2024. The petitioner further prays for issuance of direction upon the respondents to fix the maximum age of 37 years as on vacancy invited in the year 2022 i.e. 1/8/2022, which has been cancelled by the order of this Hon'ble Court. And/or the petitioner further prays for issuance of direction upon the respondents to issue fresh Advertisement by correcting to the extent of cutoff date of the maximum age limit fixed as 37 2025:JHHC:26859 2 years as on 1/8/2022 for appointment on the post of Stenographer in Secretariat, Government of Jharkhand. And/Or For issuance of any other writ/writs, order(s)/ Direction(s) which Your Lordship may deem fit and proper in the fact and circumstances of the case.” 3. It is the case of the petitioner that the cut-off date for filling the forms be relaxed and the petitioner be given a chance to appear in the examination. 4. After hearing the parties and after going through the writ petition, I find that this writ petition has been filed on 11.07.2025. The last date of filling up of forms was 05.10.2024. The petitioner has approached this Court after the last date which has been fixed for filling up of the application. 5. Now if this writ petition is allowed that will open Pandora’s box and several person will approach this Court seeking similar relief. If the petitioner would have approached before the last date, the matter would have been something else. Since the last date of advertisement is already over, I am not inclined to entertain this writ petition. 6. This writ petition is dismissed. (ANANDA SEN, J.) Tanuj/