SITANSHU BHUSHAN VERMA Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD Mr. Ganesh Prasad Singh, learned senior counsel for the petitioner. Also present is Mr. J.P.Karn, S.C.C.G.

(2.) IN this writ petition there are 15 petitioners before this court who failed to get appointment on the basis of an advertisement, dated 31.12.1996 issued by the Railway Recruitment Board, Muzaffarpur for filling up vacancies in about 70 posts of Assistant Station Master and some other posts. They seek to challenge before this court a common order, dated 29.5.2000 passed by the Vice Chairman of the Central Administrative Tribunal, Patna Bench by which a number of applications filed on behalf of the different petitioners were dismissed.

(3.) ACCORDINGLY , learned counsel for the petitioners was heard at length in support of this writ petition following which we proceed to dispose of this case on merits.