Judgment

JUDGMENT - We have heard learned councel for the parties. Special leave granted.

2. The appeal is against the judgement and order dated 14th January 1992 by the High Court of Panjab and Haryana in Civil Writ Petition No.541 of 1992 dismissing appellants writ petition in limine. We are afraid the dismissal of the writ petition was not justified in view of the antecedent litigation between the parties Culminating in an earlier judgement dated 2nd December 1991 of the High Court in writ petition No. 5728 of 1991 which had declared appellants elligibility for consideration for selection to the Punjab Civil Service (Executive Branch)(Class-I) Service from the feeder-cadres of Tehsildar and Niab Tehsildar. By the same judgement, the High Court had held - correctly or erroneously is not the question here - that in considering the case of the appellant for such selection, the relevant standards and criteria were those that obtained at the time the vacancies arose and not the amended standards that came into force subsequently on the 4th April 1990. In coming to that conclusion, the High Court had placed reliance upon the pronouncement of this Court in Y.V. Rangaiah v. J. Srinivasa R