Aftab Alam, J.

1. This writ petition which appeared no more than an expression of resentment and pique by some of the unsucessful candidates, brings to light some disturbing facts regarding the functioning of the bihar Public Service Commission (the Commission for short ). The petitioners were among the two lacs six thousand candidates who took the 37th Combined Competitive Civil Service Examination conducted by the Commission. They failed to qualify on the basis of the written examination although as claimed, they had done extremely well. On enquiry they discovered that contrary to the past practice there had been a centralised evaluation of the answer books of this examination. This is to say that in the past the answer books were despatched to the examiners who invariably used to be persons outside the State of Bihar, further, according to the petitioners, the selection of the examiners was made from a Hand Book complied by the Association of Indian Universities giving the names and addresses of teaclers working in all the constituent colleges in the country. This practice was followed in all the past examinations upto 36th examination. All this was, however, changed for