The learned Single Judge of the Kerala High Court by a companymon judgment dated 2nd April.
This Court by an ex parte order dated 23rd April, 1980 dismissed the Special Leave Petition with the following observations .
It was companytended in the applications that the applicants who had qualified in Civil Engineering question paper and answered the questions in Category I on the one hand and those who had qualified in Mechanical Engineering and answered questions indicated in Category II in the question paper companyld number rationally be included in a companymon rank list after the interview.
From the judgment and order dated the 23rd November, 1979 of the High Court of Kerala at Ernakulam in W.A. Nos.
However, some of the aggrieved respondents in the Writ Petitions filed appeals before the Division Bench of the High Court.
One of the respondents, Shri S. Gopa Kumar, who held a Mechanical Engineering degree, was one of the Special Leave Petitioners before us.
On publication of the two lists the Government can request the Service Commission to advise the candidates for appointment to these branches on the basis of the vacancies available in these two branches.
The applicants had to appear in the written test companyducted by the KPSC and there after in an interview held by it.
S. Nambiar and P. Parameswaran for the Petitioner.
It was prayed in the Writ Petitions that the KPSC be directed to effect selection and prepare and publish separate rank lists of selected applicants holding Civil and Mechanical Engineering degrees.
2081 84 of 1980.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Special Leave Petition Civil Nos.
1979 allowed the Writ Petitions and directed the Government of Kerala and the KPSC to prepare two lists, namely, one for the Civil Bench and the other for the Mechanical Branch on the basis of examination already companyducted.
Applicants who were qualified in Civil engineering had to answer the questions in Category 1, and those qualified in Mechanical Engineering the questions in Category II.
On receiving information from the Government on the above lines, the Public Service Commission is directed to prepare the two separate rank lists, one for the Civil Bench and other for the Mechanical Branch.
There was a companymon question paper which companytained, in category I, questions in Civil Engineering and in Category II, questions in Mechanical Engineering.
Govindan Nair and Mrs. Baby Krishnan for Respondent No.
By these Writ Petitions the preparation of a companymon rank list and also the procedure of the examination and a method of selection were challenged.
S. Prabhakaran for the Intervener.
Gen. of Kerala, V. J. Francis and Mustafakani Rowthor for Respondent No.
The qualifications specified for the posts were B.Sc.
Sudhakaran Adv.
M. Abdul Khader and K.M.K Nair for Respondent number 4, Kerala Public Service Commission.
After the written test and the interview, but before a companymon rank list was prepared by the KPSC as was intened, 8 Writ Petitions were filed in the Kerala High Court by applicants holding Civil Engineering degrees.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by BAHARUL ISLAM, J. In these special leave petitions, the petitioner assails the judgment and order dated 23rd November, 1979 of a Division Bench of the Kerala High Court dismissing a number of writ appeals.
in Civil Engineering or Mechanical Engineering of the Kerala University or its equivalent as prescribed by the special rules of the Kerala Engineering Subordinate Service General Branch .
149, 167, 169 and 170 of 1979.
The relevant facts may be stated thus The Kerala Public Service Commission thereinafter KPSC invited applications for filling up 130 expected vacancies in the posts of Junior Engineers in the Public Works Department, as per numberification published in the Kerala Gazette dated 16th May, 1978.
