The limit for appointment under sub rule 1 shall be 33 years in the case of a person belonging to any of the Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes and 28 years in the case of others as on 1st January, 1970.
During the pendency of the writ petitions, an ad interim order staying the operation of the aforesaid Notification dated January 9, 1963 was issued by the High Court.
Committee for selection 1 There shall be a Committee for each district companysisting of the Deputy Commissioner of the District, the Assistant Commissioner, shall be the Chairman of the Committee and one of the members appointed by the Deputy Commission er shall be the Secretary.
Provided further that in the case of local candidates, such age shall be as on 1st Janu ary, 1965 Explanation For the purpose of this rule ViIIage Officer means a person who held a Village Office other than in inferior village office as defined in the Karnataka Village Offices Abolition Act, 1961 Karnataka Act 14 of 1961 .
Pursuant to the 1970 Rules, applications were invited by the Recruitment Committee in the year, 1972 to fill up the posts of Village Accountants in the District of Has san.
Appeals by Special Leave from the Judgment and Order dated 20 2 75 of the Karnataka High Court in Writ Petition Nos.
appellants had to give up their posts in companysequence.
1871 of 11972 entitled Komari Gowda State of Mysore Ors.
After sorting out the applications received in re sponse to the advertisement, the Committee interviewed the applicants who.
the appellants have companye up in appeal to this Court.
The Committee shall call for applica tion for appointment as village Accountants and make selection in the manner laid down in the Mysore State Civil Services Direct Recruitment by Selection Rules, 1967.
Consequently the Committee again interviewed the eligible candidates and prepared a fresh list of the selected candi dates which was published in the Karnataka Gazette on May 30, 1974.
Thereafter, the Deputy Commissioner, Hassan issued orders of appointment of the candidates who were selected by the Recruitment Committee.
and the Committee was directed.
As a companysequence of the stay order, the appellants and a number of other persons who were holding tile posts of Shambogues under the Mysore Village Offices Act, 1908 had to be company tinued by the State Government in the posts held by them.
This list was quashed by the High Court by its judgment dated November 19, 1972 rendered in writ petition No.
883 and 898 905/75.
were eligible for appointment and prepared a list of the selected candidates for appointment as Village Accountants.
By a numberification issued on January 6, 1963, the Govern ment of Mysore directed the Deputy Commissioners to appoint persons recruited under the 1961 Rules as village account ants and relieve the then holders of their offices.
5825/74 and 5818, 5820, 5821, 5822, 5823, 5824, 5828 and 5829 of 1974.
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to select the candidates afresh in accordance with law.
5825, 5818, 5820, 5822 to 5824, 5828 and 5829 of 1974 on the ground that the appellants had numberright to maintain the same.
As the.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by JASWANT SINGH J. This judgment shall dispose of Appeals Nos.
Genl In CA 883/75 and N. Nettar for RR 1 and 2 in all the appeals.
B. Datar for the Appellants in all the appeals.
883 and 898 to 905 of 1975 which are, directed against the companymon judgment dated February 20, 1975 of the High Court of Karnataka at Bangalore dismissing writ petitions Nos.
Some of the candi dates thus selected were posted as Village Accountants under section 16 2 of the Act to the villages in which the appellants were functioning.
P. Raman, Addl.
On the issue of the aforesaid numberification dated January 9, 1963, a number of writ petitions under Article 226 of the Constitution were filed in the High Court challenging the legality and companystitutional validity of the Abolition Act on the ground that it was a piece of companyourable legislation.
