Judgment

Pattanaik, J.-Leave granted in all the SLPs.

2. These 12 appeals are directed against the judgment dated 9th April, 1997 of the Division Bench of Kerala High Court in Writ Appeal No. 37 of 1997. The appeals titled as Benny T.D. & Ors. etc. v. The Registrar of Co-operative Societies & Anr and State of Kerala and Ors. v. K.O. Sherly and others; relate to recruitment to the post of Clerk in Thrissur Bank, Kerala. Appeals titled as P.J. Jose and others v. The Registrar of Co-operative Societies and others and Binu I and others etc. v. The Registrar of Co-operative Societies and others etc. relate to recruitment to the post of Clerk in the District Co-operative Bank Kottayam. Apart from these appeals Trichur District Co-operative Bank also had preferred special leave petition against the same judgment of the Kerala High Court but withdrew the same at the time of hearing.

3. In case of Thrissur Bank an advertisement was issued on 9.11.1995 indicating the probable vacancies in the grade of Clerk as 85 and inviting applications for filling up of the said posts. The advertise­ment indicated the qualification for being eligible to apply and also indicated that the 10 of the vacan­cies