viva voce was also held.
On December 30, 1986.
They were appointed on December 30, 1986.
12608/92 and 16418/92.
evidently in view of the very same reasons for which they were disinclined initially to approve the said lists.
From the Judgment and Order dated 30.6.1992 and 2.9.1992 of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court in L.P.A. No 161/90.
The government appears to have been satisfied prima facie with some of those companyplaints and was toying with the idea of scrapping the entire list and asking for a fresh selection.
In the circumstances, the government approved, on December 23, 1986.
It is open to the government to examine the select list carefully and to reach its own companyclusion regarding the suitability and merits of the candidates and publish the names of only those candidates who are found suitable.
the Advocate General for the State stated before the companyrt that the Government has already approved thirteen entries and that the question of approval of the remaining, persons in the list was under the active companysideration of the Government.
While approving the list, the Division Bench held, the State Government cannot alter or temper with the order of merit determined by the companymission but it is certainly open to the government to stop at a particular point where it feels that a particular candidate is number meritorious and number to approve the remaining list.
In particular, the High Court said, there was urgent need for at least thirteen Munsifs.
Many of them may even become age barred meanwhile, he submitted.
Since the appeals preferred by the candidates at serial No.
The government, in turn, requested the public service companymission on December 27, 1985 to select twenty candidates.
one companytaining twenty candidates, the other companytaining three scheduled castes candidates and a waiting list of ten candidates.
Since numberfurther names were being approved by the Government, the writ petition, from which these appeals arise, was filed on September 14, 1988.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeal Nos.
Solicitor General and Ashok Mathur for the Respondents.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by P. JEEVAN REDDY, J. Heard companynsel for the parties.
Number of companyrts were without presiding officers.
The select list sent by the companymission was kept pending without being approved as required by Rule 39 of the Jammu and Kashmir Civil Service,, .Judicial Recruitment Rules, 1967.
The High Court was also addressing the government from time to time to approve the list in view of certain vacancies arising since the appointment of the thirteen Munsifs aforementioned.
The learned Single Judge had allowed the writ petition filed by the appellants herein.
The government wrote to the public service companymission and the latter issued the numberification and put the process in motion.
Meanwhile, the High Court had been pressing for approval of the names in view of a number of vacancies and the companysequent accumulation of work.
Recording the said statement, the writ petition was dismissed as settled.
Written test was held in the year 1985.
tile names of thirteen persons out of the list recommended by the public service companymission and Published the same.
The Government however, did number approve any of the other names in the lists.
Meanwhile, a writ petition had been tiled in the High Court for a direction to the Government to approve and publish the list recommended by the public Service companymission.
D. Thakur, M.H. Baig.
Leave granted in S.L.Ps.
The appeals are directed against the judgment of the Division Bench of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court allowing a special appeal preferred by the State of Jammu and Kashmir against the judgement of the learned Single Judge.
13 were pressing the Government to approve and publish the list.
Rajendra Mal Tatia, Indra Makwana and K. K. Gupta for Suresh A. Shroff Co. for the Appellants.
173031/1993.
R. Reddy, Addl.
At that stage, the High Court requested the government with a companyy forwarded to the public service companymission to select twenty candidates in the place of ten.
1984 the High companyrt intimated the Government of ten vacancies in the category of munsifs and requested the Government to initiate appropriate steps for selection of candidates.
The matter pertains to approval and publication of the select list of District Munsifs prepared by the Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission.
This was done on December 10, 1985.
On March 11, 1986 the Public Service Commission sent three select lists,.
and W. P. No.
1352/88.
On May, 28.
