Judgment

GOSWAMI, J.:- These appeals by certificate are directed against the judgment of the Kerala High Court in several writ applications filed there challenging the final integration list of judicial officers allotted to Kerala State under the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, briefly the Act. The appellant in Civil Appeal No. 2629 of 1969, which we will take first, was a practising Advocate. He was recruited along with 82 others by the Madras Public Service Commission, briefly the Commission, and was temporarily appointed as a District Munsiff by the Madras Government on November 25, 1950. This appointment was under Rule 7-A of the Madras State Judicial Service Rules, then in force. The Madras High Court posted him for training which commenced on January 16, 1951 and while undergoing training he was posted as District Munsiff at Calicut where he took charge of this post on May, 26, 1951. Since then he has been in continuous service as Munsiff, Subordinate Judge, District Magistrate and as District Judge. One B. Venkataramana, who had not been selected as District Munsiff along with the appellant and others in 1950, challenged the selection made by the Commission in a writ petitio