ORDER

1. Leave granted.

2. Heard learned counsel for the parties and also the learned Solicitor General and Mr G. L. Sanghi, the learned Senior Counsel who were requested to assist this Court as amicus curiae. The orders passed on 18-4-1996, 22-4-1996 and 17-5-1996 by a Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court in Writ Petition No. 6072 of 1995 are under challenge in this appeal. Writ Petition No. 6072 of 1995 (Jawahar Ram Gupta v. High Court of Judicature at Allahabad) was filed before the High Court of Allahabad challenging the selection made for the post of a Section Officer (Protocol) of the said High Court. Initially, the said writ petition came up for hearing before a Division Bench presided over by Mr Justice P. K. Mukherji on 3-8-1995 and the Court directed that the matter would be listed for further hearing in the next listing. It, however, appears that an application was moved by the petitioner in the said writ petition before a learned Single Judge, but the learned Single Judge was of the view that the matter was to be taken up for hearing before a Division Bench. The record of the said Writ Petition No. 6072 of 1995 was placed before Court No. 9 on 20-12-1995 and the D