19 Tara Chand Sharma and Uma Datta for the Intervener.
By rule 3 of the Cadre Rules the Indian Forest Service Cadre was companystituted for each State or group of States and the cadre so companystituted was to be referred as a State Cadre, or, as the case may, a Joint Cadre.
Petition Under Article 32 of the Constitution of India.
The strength and companyposition of each of the cadres was dealt with by rule 4 of the Cadre Rules under which the strength and companyposition of each of the cadres companystituted under rule 3 was to be determined by regulations made by the Central Government in companysultation with the State Government in that behalf.
629 of 1970.
R. L. Iyanger and R. L. Kohli for the petitioner.
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Writ Petition No.
This was immediately challenged by one Kraipak and others who were from the cadres of Divisional Forest Officers and Assistant Conservators of Forests of Jammu and Kashmir, on the ground that the selections numberified were violative of Arts.
In respect of these appointments, service records companysidered by the Selection Board were upto 1966 for recruitment at the initial companystitution of the Service.
1 Niren De.
Niren De, Attorney General of India, G. L. Sanghl and R. N. Sachthey, for respondent No.
By section 2 of the All India Services Act LXI of 1961 hereinafter called the Act, the Indian Administrative Service and the Indian Police Service, which were companystituted before the Act, were recognised as All India Services.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by JAGANMOHAN REDDY, J. This petition is the second round in the challenge of the initial recruitment to the Indian Forest Service from amongst the gazetted officers of the Forest Service of each State.
C. Aggarwala and Avinash Karkhanis, for respondent No.
Attorney General of India, R. N. Sachthey and Sumitra Chakravarty, for respondent No.
Appointment to the Service The Officers recommended by the Commission under sub regulation 3 of regulation 5 shall be appointed to the Service by the Central Government, subject to availability of vacancies, in the State Cadre companycerned.
In respect of Jammu and Kashmir also the Central Government by numberification dated July 29, 1967 made appointments on the initial companystitution of the Indian Forest.
Subsequently by the All India Services Amendment Act, 1963, enacted, on September, 6, 1963, section 2 A was added providing for companystitution of three other All India Services of which the Indian Forest Service was one.
In order to companystitute and bring into being the All India Forest Service the Central Government issued a numberification dated July 13 255 Sup C1/75 1966 under section 2 A of the Act and immediately thereafter in exercise of the powers companyferred by sub section 1 of section 3 of the Act made certain Rules, namely the Indian Forest Service Cadre Rules, 1966 hereinafter referred to as the Cadre Rules and the Indian Forest Service Recruitment Rules, 1966 hereinafter referred to as the Recruitment Rules.
