STATE OF RAJASTHAN Vs. K K BHATIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS judgment will dispose of the above mentioned seven cases.

(2.) SHRI N K. Bhatia an Assistant Engineer in the Rajasthan Ground Water Board filed a S. B. Civil Writ Petition No. 329 of 1971 He was appointed on ad hoc and temporary basis as an Assistant Engineer in the Rajasthan Ground Water Board by the Government of Rajasthan, Agricultural Department, Order dated 16th January, 1967. The Rajasthan Public Service Commission (hereinafter called the Commission) issued an advertisement on 12th June, 1970, inviting applications for the posts of 16 Assistant Engineers in accordance with the Rajasthan Ground Water Board Service Rules, 1969 The petitioner also applied and appeared before the Commission on 3-2-1971 for interview. The Commission made the selections but he was not selected. He challenged the selections on the ground that all the members of the Commission did not participate in any of the sittings of the Commission and the interview was taken only by the Chairman and one other member aided by two experts and one departmental representative.

(3.) IT was further urged that yet another difficulty that still remained was that no consequent amendments in the Service Rules in question have been made. In those rules, the definition of the Commission still remains the same namely 'commission' means the Rajasthan Public Service Commission that is to say, all the members for the time being comprising the Commission. IT was pointed out that until the rules were suitably modified, they will continue to be construed in accordance with the definition clause.