NEW DELHI: Two men have knocked the doors of the Supreme Court after their applications for jobs with the Madhya Pradesh government had been rejected under Junior Civil Services Recruitment Rules because their parents got them married ahead of they attained the legally permissible marriageable age of 21 years.
After their advocate Neelam Gokhale termed the rule discriminatory and stated the two men in a different way met the eligibility standards, the bench issued understand to the Madhya Pradesh government and sought its reaction in four weeks.
The two men, one married off on the age of 15 years and 10 months in May 1990 and the other on the age of 18 years and 11 months in June 1996, are running as patwaris within the state and sought after to use for the submit of ‘naib tehsildar’ in pursuance to an advertisement issued by the state government.
“However, their applications had been rejected by the net portal on account that the age of the petitioners on the time of marriage used to be underneath the legally prescribed age and, hence, they had been barred from public employment,”Gokhale stated.
In the enchantment, the petitioners stated the SC had entertained a petition in 2012 by one Ratnarashi Pandey, who had challenged the validity of Rule 5 of MP Civil Services (General Conditions of Service) Rules which stated that no candidate could be eligible for appointment in any service or submit if s/he had married ahead of the permissible age.
During pendency of Pandey’s petition, the state government had deleted the clause prohibiting employment of those that had married ahead of achieving the legally permissible age. However, it used to be kept alive within the 2011 Rules for recruitment of junior civil servants.
After their advocate Neelam Gokhale termed the rule discriminatory and stated the two men in a different way met the eligibility standards, the bench issued understand to the Madhya Pradesh government and sought its reaction in four weeks.
The two men, one married off on the age of 15 years and 10 months in May 1990 and the other on the age of 18 years and 11 months in June 1996, are running as patwaris within the state and sought after to use for the submit of ‘naib tehsildar’ in pursuance to an advertisement issued by the state government.
“However, their applications had been rejected by the net portal on account that the age of the petitioners on the time of marriage used to be underneath the legally prescribed age and, hence, they had been barred from public employment,”Gokhale stated.
In the enchantment, the petitioners stated the SC had entertained a petition in 2012 by one Ratnarashi Pandey, who had challenged the validity of Rule 5 of MP Civil Services (General Conditions of Service) Rules which stated that no candidate could be eligible for appointment in any service or submit if s/he had married ahead of the permissible age.
During pendency of Pandey’s petition, the state government had deleted the clause prohibiting employment of those that had married ahead of achieving the legally permissible age. However, it used to be kept alive within the 2011 Rules for recruitment of junior civil servants.
Child marriage: Denied govt job, 2 men move SC
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