Judgment

G.B. Pattanaik, J.-Application for permission to file Special Leave Petition is granted.

2. Delay condoned in Special Leave Petition No. 14660 of 1995.

3. Leave granted in all the Special Leave Petitions.

4. In all these cases the legality of the Full Bench judgment dated 13th July, 1994, passed by a bench of Punjab and Haryana High Court and the directions given thereunder are under challenge. These cases depict a sordid state of affair in the State of Haryana in relation to recruitment to the post of clerks and the State all along has been a mute spectator. As it appears from the records and the different documents appended thereto in the year 1987 there existed some vacancies in the post of clerks in the State of Haryana and the im­pugned judgment indicates that the Service Selection Board had received requisitions from different departments of the Government for a total number of 662 posts. The advertisement which had been issued inviting applications from the candidates, however, did not indicate the number of vacancies. The Service Selection Board conducted the written test and thereafter selected 5373 candidates and prepared a list of those candidates on 15.10.1989. In