ORDER

1. Special leave granted.

2. The brief facts are that by the decision of this Court in G. Venkat Reddy V. GovL of A. P this Court in para 15 thereof gave the following directions : (SCC p. 435) "J5.... The candidates who have entered service after passing the SQT shall rank immediately after the regularly appointed candidates who had entered service before the selection of the successful SQT candidates. Next to the SQT candidates will rank those who are governed by this Courts directive in the last para of Divakar case2. Thereafter, the seniority will be fixed between the candidates under a GOMs No. 647, the upgraded supervisors and the SC/ST candidates recruited under Rule 22(e) - limited recruitment scheme - in the light of this judgment."

3. The direction, therefore, clearly sets out how the seniority will be fixed between candidates belonging to three different groups. The appellants before us contend that they belong to the Divakar group. Insofar as the directive in the last para of Divakar case2 is concerned it reads as under : (SCC p. 346, para 6) 6.. .. In order to do justice between the parties and not to leave the appellants, fresh young engineering graduates, in the lurch, we direct that the Commission shall proceed to finalise the list of selection on the basis of the viva voce conducted and marks assigned and forward the same to the Government within two months from today. If the appellants or any one of them fall within the zone of selection, they must be first appointed according to their place in the select list before any outsider is appointed hereafter to the post of the Junior Engineer in any branch of the Andhra Pradesh Engineering Service and this must be irrespective of the Department in which the post of Junior Engineer is available."

4. Pursuant to this direction given in Divakar case2 the Public Service Commission finalised the list of selection on the basis of the viva voce test conducted and marks assigned, forwarded the same to the Government. It may here be mentioned that according to the counsel none of the appellants in Divakar case2 availed of the appointments presumably because they had better opportunities elsewhere. After the Commission forwarded the select list to the Government the latter by GOMs No. 307 dated 23-5-1983 issued certain directions, inter alia, stating that the appellants in Civil Appeal No. 2487 of 1982 and the candidates ranked above them in the Public Service Commission list, who are not eligible for regularisation of their service in terms of GOMs No. 647 General Administration (Service-A) Department dated 14-9- 1979 should be appointed in the respective zones and departments to which they are selected for appointment in the available vacancies. The further decision was that after absorbing the candidates who ranked above the appellants before the Supreme Court, the candidates who were within the zone of selection in the list furnished by the Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission and who are ranked below the appellants should be appointed in the existing or future vacancies in any engineering services. It is, thus, clear that by the said Government decision candidates other than the appellants in Divakar case2 were directed to be appointed in the manner set out above. The submission that the direction in the last para of Divakar case2 was limited to the appellants only, cannot be accepted for the reason that the Government had approved the list finalised by the Commission by GOMs No. 307 dated 23-5-1983 and appointments had been made in pursuance thereof. This was taken note of in Venkat Reddy case and the summary, therefore, was drawn up after keeping that fact in mind. So far as a GOMs No. 607 dated 14-9-1979 is concerned the same had been upheld by this Court and those covered under the said GOMs have also been assigned a place in the seniority as per the summary in Venkat Reddy case1. The position has, therefore, been made quite clear in regard to the fixation