UPSC Ladakh Public Law Officer 2026 — apply by 9 Oct

UPSC Ladakh Public Law Officer 2026 is Vacancy No. 26091107212 in Advertisement No. 11/2026. Online forms opened on 12 September 2026. Last date for this Ladakh post — 9 October 2026, 1800 hours. Apply on upsconline.nic.in. Detailed notice — upsc.gov.in Advt No. 11/2026.

The same advertisement also had 140 Assistant Public Prosecutor posts in the Directorate of Prosecution, Delhi. That window closed at 1800 hours on 2 October 2026. Do not pay anyone to file that closed post. Only the Ladakh law post is still open.

What a public law officer does, in plain words

A public law officer is the government’s in-house lawyer for a department. On this notice the officer gives legal opinions, checks draft notifications, rules and regulations for departments of the Union Territory of Ladakh, sits on Departmental Promotion Committees, drafts and vets replies, and writes formally to the Ministry. The same person may also do the work of District Litigation Officer for Leh and Kargil. That is court-side work for the administration, not private practice.

The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) is the recruiting body. The job sits in the Law and Justice Department under the Administration of UT of Ladakh. UPSC recommends. The department appoints.

What kind of seat this is

The post is permanent. It is General Central Service, Group-B, Gazetted, Non-Ministerial. Headquarters is the Union Territory of Ladakh. Probation is two years. There is a mandatory induction training of at least two weeks, as prescribed by the competent authority, before probation can be completed. No bond figure is printed.

Who should apply — and who should skip

Apply if you are a domicile of the Union Territory of Ladakh, hold a valid domicile certificate issued by a Tehsildar in the Administration of UT of Ladakh, have a bachelor’s degree in law (professional or integrated) from a university established by law in India, and have two years of actual practice at the Bar. That practice must be certified by the Principal District and Sessions Judge concerned, or the Registrar General of the High Court concerned, or the Supreme Court. The roster on this post is ST-04, so the age line printed is 40 years for ST. You must also meet the citizenship rule: citizen of India, or the other listed categories only with a certificate of eligibility from the Government of India.

Domicile follows the Ladakh Civil Services Decentralization and Recruitment — Grant of Domicile Certificate (Procedure) Rules, 2025, notified by the Ministry of Home Affairs and published in the Gazette of India (Extraordinary) on 3 June 2025. Eligible groups printed on the notice are Category A (holding a Ladakh Resident Certificate, or eligible to be issued one) and Category B (children of L.R.C. holders, or of those eligible for an L.R.C.).

Skip if you are not a Ladakh domicile. The notice says recruitment is exclusively for domiciles of the UT. Skip if you only have a law degree and no two years at the Bar. Skip the Delhi Assistant Public Prosecutor row: that last date was 2 October 2026. Skip sugar, medical and editor posts in the same PDF. Skip any page that asks for a “registration fee” outside upsconline.nic.in. The fee on the notice is Rs 25, and women, SC, ST and persons with benchmark disability do not pay it.

Dates and fee

Item	On the official notice
Advertisement	No. 11/2026; applications invited from 12 September 2026
Apply start	12 September 2026 on upsconline.nic.in
Last date (this post)	9 October 2026, 1800 hours
Last date (other posts in the same ad, including Delhi APP)	2 October 2026, 1800 hours — already closed
Eligibility date	Closing date of this post
Fee	Rs 25 by card, UPI or net banking. No fee for SC, ST, PwBD and women of any community. OBC, EWS and unreserved male candidates pay Rs 25. Fee is not refunded.

Available positions and category breakdown

1. Public Law Officer / District Litigation Officer / Law Officer — Level-8 4 vacancies

Eligibility criteria
A bachelor’s degree in Law (professional or integrated) from a university established by law in India, with two years of actual practice at the Bar. The certificate must come from the Principal District and Sessions Judge concerned, or the Registrar General of the High Court concerned, or the Supreme Court. Qualifications are relaxable at the discretion of UPSC, for reasons to be recorded in writing, if the candidate is otherwise well qualified. Experience is also relaxable for Scheduled Tribe candidates if, at any stage, UPSC finds that enough ST candidates with the experience are not likely to be available.

UR	OBC	SC	ST	EWS	PwBD
0	0	0	4	0	1

Of the four vacancies, one is reserved for persons with benchmark disability. The reserved PwBD cell is category (a) Blindness and Low Vision: 1. Cells for (b), (c) and (d)&(e) are printed 0. Suitability is 40 percent and above. Blind and low vision are marked suitable and reserved. Hard of hearing is marked suitable but not reserved. Several locomotor categories are marked suitable but not reserved. Deaf, stiff back and hips, muscular dystrophy, autism, intellectual disability and mental illness are marked not suitable. The PwBD reservation is horizontal inside the four posts, not a fifth seat.

Total vacancies on this post — 4.

Educational qualifications

Post	Degree	Experience / extras
Public Law Officer / District Litigation Officer / Law Officer	Bachelor’s degree in Law, professional or integrated, from a university established by law in India	Two years actual practice at the Bar, certified by the Principal District and Sessions Judge, or the Registrar General of the High Court, or the Supreme Court. Ladakh domicile certificate from a Tehsildar of the UT.

Age and reservation rule

40 years for ST. Up to 10 more years for PwBD. Age is counted on the closing date, 9 October 2026. Ex-servicemen and certain Central or UT government servants can claim the relaxations printed in the general instructions of the advertisement (5 years for qualifying ex-servicemen; Central/UT servants up to 5 years, 10 years for SC/ST and 8 years for OBC on posts reserved for them, if they have 3 years of continuous service in the same line or allied cadre). The maximum age on the closing date for a government-servant relaxation is 56.

Reservation follows the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation Act, 2004 as extended to Ladakh, the Union Territory of Ladakh Reservation (Amendment) Regulation, 2025 (No. 1 of 2025), and the Union Territory of Ladakh Reservation (Amendment) Rules, 2025 (S.O. 77 dated 27 June 2025). If you can claim more than one reserved category, Section 19 of the 2004 Act says you pick one at the time of application. That choice is final. Certificates must be in the formats appended to the advertisement (Annexure-I to X).

Selection

1. Online application only, on upsconline.nic.in. You need a Universal Registration Number, then a post-specific application number. Keep both.
2. If applications are many, UPSC may shortlist on desirable qualification, higher study, higher experience, or a recruitment test. The notice does not print a separate desirable qualification for this post.
3. Interview. Minimum suitability, out of 100 interview marks, is UR 50, OBC 45, SC/ST/PH 40, whether or not a recruitment test is held. Interview date is intimated separately. Carry the printout and documents that day.

How to prepare (free, official)

• Advertisement No. 11/2026 PDF
• UPSC online recruitment portal
• Other open law hiring cards

How to apply without getting played

1. Open upsconline.nic.in. Create the account and Universal Registration if you do not have a URN. Aadhaar is the ID the notice asks you to prefer.
2. Open Vacancy No. 26091107212, not the Delhi prosecutor vacancy. Pay Rs 25 only if you are not in an exempt group. Women, SC, ST and PwBD pay nothing.
3. Upload the law degree, the Bar-practice certificate from the named judge or Registrar General, and the Ladakh domicile certificate. Save the application number.
4. Do not use a lookalike domain. UPSC does not take the fee on WhatsApp.

FAQs

What is the last date?
9 October 2026, 1800 hours, for this Ladakh post only. Other posts in Advertisement No. 11/2026 closed at 1800 hours on 2 October 2026.

Who can apply?
Ladakh domiciles with a professional or integrated bachelor’s degree in law and two years of actual practice at the Bar, certified by the Principal District and Sessions Judge, the Registrar General of the High Court, or the Supreme Court. Age 40 for ST, plus up to 10 years for PwBD.

How many vacancies?
4, all ST, with 1 horizontal PwBD seat in Blindness and Low Vision.

Where do I apply?
upsconline.nic.in.

What is the fee?
Rs 25. Women, SC, ST and PwBD are exempt. The fee is not refunded.

Can final-year students apply?
No. The notice asks for the degree and two years of actual practice at the Bar, counted as on 9 October 2026.

Other official hiring cards are on the jobs board.