Judgment

JAGANMOHAN REDDY, J. : - This petition is the second round in the challenge of the initial recruitment to the Indian Forest Service from amongst the gazetted officers of the Forest Service of each State. By Section 2 of the All India Services Act, LXI of 1951 - hereinafter called the Act , the Indian Administrative Service and the Indian Police Service, which were constituted before the Act, were recognised as All-India Services. Subsequently by the All India Services (Amendment) Act, 1963, enacted on September 6, 1963 Section 2-A was added providing for constitution of three other All India Services of which the Indian Forest Service was one. Section 3 of the Act dealt with the regulation of recruitment and conditions of service. It provided:

"(1) The Central Government may after consultation with the governments of the States concerned including the State of Jammu and Kashmir, make rules for the regulation of recruitment, and the conditions of service of persons appointed, to an All India Service.

(2) All rules made under this section shall be laid for not less than fourteen days before Parliament as soon as possible after they are made, and shall be subject to such modifi