JUDGMENT

RANGANATH MISRA, J. :— This appeal is by special leave and is directed against the appellate judgment of a Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court upholding the decision of a learned single Judge of that Court by dismissing the appeal in limine. The Haryana Public Service Commission advertised the filling-up of 4 posts of District Food and Supplies Officers by direct recruitment. The Commission prescribed, inter alia, that one of the essential qualifications shall be "five/three years experience as an executive officer in a commercial organisation of Government or. Semi-Government office before or after acquiring the academic degree" and the Special Secretary to Haryana Government in the Food and Supplies Department, on 20th of February, 1981, wrote to the Secretary of the Commission affirming that position and added that :

"Certain Inspectors/ Sub- Inspectors of this Department seem to have sent their applications (advance copies) to the Commission for these posts. The work of Inspectors/Sub-lnspectors is of executive nature though they are not officers. As such, in case the Commission feels that they fulfil the qualifications for the posts in question. this d