JUDGMENT

CHINNAPPA REDDY, J.:— The judgment in this appeal is really an appendix to the judgment pronounced by us in Civil Appeal No. 2112 of 1979 (reported in 1980 Lab IC 735 (SC) ). The relevant facts may be gathered from that judgment. The further events requiring to be mentioned are these : While the writ petition filed by Ahluwalia in the High Court of Himachal Pradesh was pending, some of the respondents to the writ petition and one R. R. Verma all direct recruits, chose to file a writ petition in the Delhi High Court questioning the notice dated June 29, 1973, calling upon them to submit representations against the year of allotment proposed to be allotted to Sahney, Dhaliwal and Ahluwalia. After the writ petition of Ahluwalia was allowed, and after the Central Government passed the order dated July 27, 1979, pursuant to the direction issued by the High Court of Himachal Pradesh, the Delhi High Court dismissed the writ petition filed by the direct recruits as infructuous. The High Court, however, granted a certificate of fitness to appeal to this Court under Article 133 of the Constitution. Therefore, this appeal. The writ petition having been dismissed as infructuous we do