S.RAJENDRA BABU, J.

(1) THE appellants before us were appointed to certain posts of clerks, firemen, drivers, peons, instructors etc. in the municipal council of Mansa, Punjab pursuant to three selections made in the year 1993,1994 and 1995. On certain complaint being made, an inquiry was instituted and one Shri Mandeep Singh, joint director, legal bodies, municipal administration made a report that certain relations of the president and other municipal councillors were selected by disregarding the others. Inspite of the report, no action was taken by the government to rescind the orders of appointment. At that stage, two municipal councillors and wife of one of the municipal councillor filed a writ petition before the High Court challenging the appointments of the appellants.

(2) THE principal ground raised before the High Court is that most of the selected candidates are related to the members of the selection committee and certain detailed averments were made in that regard in the writ petition as to the nature of the relationship or how distant and how closely they were only related to the members of the selection committee and other details. They a