From the Judgment and Order dated 20.3.1990 of the Allahabad High Court in W.P. Nos.
As a result of the written examination held on 9th July, 1989 as many as 386 candidates were called for group discussion interview.
The result of the successful candidates in order of merit was published in daily newspaper on 27th November, 1989.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISIDCTION Civil Appeal Nos.
R. Lalit, R.C. Verma, Virendra Mishra, Gopal Subramaniam and Mrs. S. Dikshit for the Respondnets.
The three unsuccessful candidates filed writ petitions in the Lucknow bench of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabd inter alia on the ground that the marks for interview and group discussion had been allocated on the higher side and against the decisions of this Court and as such the entire selection stood vitiated and was liable to be quashed.
The very next day the Board also issued individual letters to the successful candidates calling upon them to join on 26th December, 1989 at Electricity Training Institute Sarojini Nagar, Lucknow, The appellants before us joined the institute in December, 1989 and thereafter they were sent to various places for training and they started drawing salaries in the prescribed pay scale and since then they are companytinuously working on the respective posts.
Later on 49 more candidates were called for group discussion and interview.
120 marks were allocated for the written test, 40 marks for interview and 40 marks for group discussion.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by KASLIWAL, J. Special leave granted.
S. Ray, P.P. Rao, S.N. Bhat, Narendra Singh Malik, Sunil Gupta, Harish N. Salve and Pradeep Misra for the Appellants.
The U.P. State Electricity Board invited applications for filling up the posts of Assistant Engineers Civil by issuing an advertisement in April, 1989.
2433 to 2435 of 1991 etc.
Written test was companyducted by the Board on 9th July, 1989 and then interviews and group discussion were held in October and November, 1989.
Aggrieved against the Judgment of the High Court, the appellants have companye in appeal to this Court by grant of special leave.
The High Court by Judgment dated 28th March, 1990 allowed the writ petitions by a companymon Judgment on the ground that the marks allocated for interview and group discussion were more than 20 per cent and hence the whole selection was liable to be quashed.
10643, 10342 and 10706 of 1989.
A list of 46 candidates who were declared successful was published by the Board.
