JUDGMENT

K. RAMASWAMY, J.:— Leave granted in Special Leave Petitions and heard along with the appeals.

2. Common questions of facts and law arise in the appeals and hence are disposed of by a common judgment. It is not necessary to restate the facts, preceding the decision of the High Court of Punjab & Haryana in Gurjit Singh v. State of Punjab. (W.P. No. 2374 of 1985). Suffice to state that the High Court in the said judgment, while allowing the ad hoc appointments made by the Government of Punjab to the posts of Patwaris under the Punjab Revenue Patwari Class III Service Rules, 1963, for short the Rules to continue for six months, directed the State Government to make regular appointments in accordance with the rules within the said period from the. date of the judgment or else the ad hoc arrangement would lapse. Pursuant thereto, since the Service Selection Board, Punjab was not constituted, the Government of Punjab by a notification dated August 26, 1986 amended R. 2(a) and empowered the State Government to authorise "other authorities" to make recruitment to the service. Accordingly the Government constituted a, Committee for each District, by proceeding dated May 27, 1986 to m