Judgment

Arijit Pasayat, J.—Leave granted.

2. The Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Commission’) calls in question legality of the judgment rendered by a Division Bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court affirming the judgment of the Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunal (in short ‘Tribunal’).

3. The controversy involved in the present appeal arises in the following background:

The appellant-Commission by its advertisement No. 13/94 dated 17.1.1995 advertised for filling up 8 posts of Assistant Public Relations Officers. Subsequently, 7 more vacancies were advertised. Therefore, the recruitment was made for 15 vacancies. There were 5 zones namely, Zones I to V for which selections were to be made in the following ­manner:

Zone Community No. of vacancies

I OC 2

BC-B 1

II OC 2

BC-B 1

III OC 1

BC-A 1