JUDGMENT

G.B. Pattanaik, J.-Leave granted.

2. This appeal by special leave is directed against the judgment of the Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court dated 2.2.1995 dismissing the petitioners appeal and affirming the decision of the learned Single Judge in Civil Misc. Writ Petition No. 32001 of 1992. This is a glaring instance of abuse of judicial process which is partly due to inaction on the part of the State authorities.

3. The respondents had been appointed as Investigators-cum-Computer on a fixed remuneration of Rs. 400/- per month by order dated 17.9.1986, such posts having been created under the temporary scheme only upto 28th of February, 1987 in 15 districts of Uttar Pradesh. While selecting persons for filling up those purely temporary posts apart from considering the cases of names which were sponsered by the emloyment exchange, the appropriate authority of the Animal Husbandary Directorate received about 208 applications directly and finally selected 44 persons among them. The Government having come to know of the irregularity as stated above cancelled the appointments by order dated 6.3.1987 and called upon the authorities to selec