(1.) HEARD Dr. L.P. Mishra, Mr. Vivek Raj Singh, Mr. Manik Sinha, Advocates on behalf of the petitioners, Mr. I.B. Singh, Senior Advocate assisted by Mr. Rajneesh Kumar, Advocate for the U.P. Public Services Commission and Mr. J.N. Mathur, Senior Advocate on behalf of the selected candidates.
(2.) IN the aforementioned bunch of writ petitions, the result of the U.P. P.C.S. (J), 2006 conducted by U.P. Public Services Commission (hereinafter referred to as 'Commission') is under challenge. In the writ petitions mentioned at Sl. No. 1 to 11, petitioners are the candidates, who were selected in the written examination and were called for interview, but failed to get their place in the final select list. Other petitioners are the candidates who failed to qualify the written/preliminary examination.
(3.) DURING the course of proceedings, Mr. I.B. Singh, Senior Advocate appearing for the Commission has raised objections to the correctness of the report of the Registrar of this Court and has submitted that he has filed the supplementary affidavit wherein in paragraph no. 3 of the said affidavit, it has been stated that the guidelines, which have been laid down by the Hon'ble Apex Court in paragraph no. 23 in the case of Sanjay Singh and another Vs. U.P.P.S.C., Allahabad and another reported in [(2007) 3 SCC 720] were strictly adhered to. Under these circumstances, in order to verify the aforesaid submissions made in the said paragraph, the Court preferred to inspect the record and accordingly record of three boxes (containing the procedural documents) were inspected by the officers of the Commission in the presence of the Bench on 11.5.2013.