Jaipur, April 4 -- The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Rajasthan Public Service Commission to permit one candidate instead of 713 to appear in the Rajasthan Sub-Inspector Recruitment Examination 2025, modifying its earlier April 2 order. The bench of justices Dipankar Datta and Satish Chandra Sharma allowed the application filed by the Rajasthan Public Service Commission (RPSC), holding that the benefit of participation in the ongoing examination would not be extended to all similarly placed over age candidates, which the Supreme Court had granted in an order on Thursday. The RPSC informed the court that they have already permitted 713 candidates who were over age and were writ petitioners before the high court in the same category as Suraj Mal Meena, said additional advocate general Shiv Mangal Sharma. The Court clarified that only the applicant, Suraj Mal Meena, would be permitted to appear in the examination, thereby reversing the broader interpretation of its earlier directions. At the same time, the Court took note of the submission made by RPSC that around 713 overage candidates, who had already approached the high court, have been issued admit cards and are presently appearing in the examination being conducted in two phases on 5th and 6th April 2026, he said. Maintaining administrative stability, the Supreme Court categorically directed that there shall be no change in the examination schedule, and the RPSC will proceed strictly in accordance with its notified programme. The Court further made it clear that its order shall not apply to candidates who have not approached the Court, thereby preventing any expansion of eligibility beyond the litigating parties. The modification came after RPSC highlighted serious logistical and systemic concerns arising from the earlier order. It was submitted that nearly 770,000 candidates are already participating in the recruitment process, and any indiscriminate extension of eligibility to overage candidates could lead to a complete breakdown of the examination system. The Commission also pointed out that the examination is being conducted across 41 cities and over 1173 centres, and accommodating additional candidates at such a late stage would create severe operational and security challenges. Further, it was brought to the Court's attention that more than 221,000 candidates from the 2021 recruitment cycle had not applied for the present examination, and allowing them now would disrupt the entire process, said Sharma. Accepting these submissions, the Court confined the relief strictly to the applicant(s) before it, while ensuring that the ongoing examination process remains unaffected. Earlier, as reflected in the proceedings, the Supreme Court had permitted provisional participation of the applicant while clarifying that no equity would accrue merely by appearing in the examination and that the results of such candidates would remain subject to final outcome of the proceedings. Senior advocate representation included Shiv Mangal Sharma, additional advocate general, along with Rajesh Chauhan for RPSC, while Nikhlesh Ramachandran appeared on behalf of the applicant Suraj Mal Meena. The ruling strikes a careful balance between individual relief and the integrity of a large-scale public recruitment process, ensuring that the examination proceeds without disruption while limiting judicial intervention to the parties before the Court....