ORDER :

M.B. Shah, J.

It is settled that while filling up the vacancies in the State services, the Government has to act bona fide and not arbitrarily and also appointment to the services should be strictly on merits. Allegation in this group of matters is that selected candidates who were eligible for appointment on merits were not appointed and less meritorious candidates were appointed for extraneous reasons. For this purpose, merit list was not at all disclosed. For finding out the truth, we are adjourning these matters for getting correct information from the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (for short "U.P. PSC") with regard to the selection of the candidates for the post of Principals which were advertised in the year 1996.

2. Repeatedly, matters were adjourned at the request of learned counsel for U.P. PSC on one or the other pretext, but unfortunately, the complete affidavit is not filed till today. It appears that U.P. PSC is interested in suppressing some facts from the Court as well as from the candidates who appeared in the examination for some ulterior purpose. From a constitutional functionary like Public Service Commission, much more higher standards are expecte