Delhi Police Head Constable Age Limit: DP HC Recruitment Notice 2022

Delhi Police Head Constable Age Limit and Upper age limit exemption as per DP HC Recruitment Notice 2022

As per the notification Para 5. Age Limit: 18 to 25 years as on 01.01.2022 (i.e. candidates born not before 02-01-1997 and not later than 01-01-2004). The upper age limit as prescribed above will be relaxable only in the following cases:-

5.1 Upto a maximum of 5 years if a candidate belongs to a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe category.

5.2 Upto a maximum of 3 years if a candidate belongs to an OBC category. This relaxation is admissible for those castes notified in the Central List and the List issued by the Govt. of NCT of Delhi.

5.3 Upto 35 years (38 years for OBC, 40 years for SCs/STs) for widows/divorced women and women judicially separated from their husbands and who are not re-married. 

5.4 Upto a maximum of 5 years for sportsmen/sportswomen of distinction who have represented a State at the National level or the Country at the International level in sports during preceding three years from the date of advertisement of vacancies. The discipline of sports for which relaxation is available is mentioned in the Annexure ‘A’. The Sports Certificate shall be issued in the proforma attached at Annexure-‘B’ & ‘C’ having photograph of the candidate duly attested by the Secretary of the State/National Sports Federation. If a candidate belongs to SC/ST category and fulfills the above criteria, he/she is eligible for 5 years relaxation in upper age limit over and above the relaxation prescribed at Clause 5.1. In effect, he/she qualifies for relaxation in the upper age limit upto a maximum of 10 years.

5.5 Relaxation in the upper age limit is admissible upto 40 years for general category, 43 years for OBC & 45 years for SCs/STs in case of departmental candidates of Delhi Police. A “departmental candidate” means a person who has rendered a minimum three years regular and continuous service in Delhi Police who otherwise fulfills all educational and other physical qualifications.

5.6 Age concession to Ex-Servicemen will be allowed in accordance with the orders issued by the government from time to time. They will be permitted to deduct the period served in the armed forces from their actual age and the resultant age, so derived, should not exceed the prescribed age limit by more than three years.

5.7 Relaxation in the upper age limit is admissible upto 35 years (38 years for OBC, 40 years for SCs/STs) for Persons with Disability (PwD) candidates. Only the persons having locomotor disability of 40% and above (either one or both leg affected) shall be allowed.

5.8 Permissible relaxation in upper age limit for different categories based on para 5.1 to 5.7 above are as under: