The appellants, however, are aggrieved by the decision only in so far as it found and held that the selections made for filling up the vacancies in the posts of Lower Division Assistant LDA were bad and the select list, dated June 24, 2003 was illegal and companysequently set it aside.
The eight appellants in Civil Appeal arising from SLP C No.12129/ 2006 were among the 12 selected candidates in the select list that was set aside by the High Court.
The three appeals are directed against the judgment and order dated May 17, 2006 passed by a full bench of the Guwahati High Court disposing of a large group of writ petitions.
8815 of 2004 filed by one Inamul Hoque who was at serial No.7 in that select list .
The companytroversy relates to appointments to the vacant posts of Lower Division Assistants in the Transport Department, Government of Assam for which the companycerned authorities, following a selection process, prepared the select list dated June 24, 2003.
1154 of 2004 came to be filed before the High Court on March 5, 2004 by some casual employees seeking stay on the appointments from the select list and on the same day March 5, 2004 the High Court directed the companycerned authorities number to issue any appointment orders for the post of LDAs till the next date March 11, 2004 fixed in the case.
A similar order was passed by the High Court on March 5, 2004 in P. C No.
Eventually all the writ petitions raising claims for appointment on different grounds as LDA in the transport department came to be grouped together and in view of the companyflicting orders passed in different writ petitions the entire group came to be heard by a full bench of the Court.
According to them, they were in some earlier list dated November 20, 2001 on the basis of which the select list of June 24, 2003 was finally drawn up.
This writ petition too was one of the batch of cases disposed of by the full bench judgment against which the present appeals are preferred.
Leave granted in all the SLPs.
A writ petition being W.P. C No.
The other six appellants in the other two Civil Appeals and I.A. No.5 of 2009 admittedly did number figure in the select list dated June 24, 2003.
Earlier to that a writ petition being W.P. C No.66222 of 2003 was filed, the petitioners in which challenged the select list dated June 24, 2003 published by the Joint Commissioner Transport, Government of Assam and sought direction for their appointment on the basis of some purported select list dated February 21, 2006.
