S. Sarwar Ali, J.

This is an application for quashing the order contained in Annexure 1. By this order the Bihar Public Service Commission intimated to the petitioner that his application for appearing at the 16th Bihar Civil Service (Judicial Branch) Examination, 1975, has been rejected as he was not eligible to appear at that examination. The petitioner further prays that the Commission-foresaid be directed to permit the petitioner to appear at the examination which was commencing from 26.12.1975. At the time of admission, an order was passed permitting the petitioner to sit at the aforesaid examination, but it was directed that the result of the petitioner should not be published during the pendency of the application.

2. Facts which are either not disputed or established on the basis of the affidavits that have been filed in this case may be compactly stated. They are as follows;

The petitioner was enrolled as an advocate on 27.3.1973. He started regularly practising at Patna from that date. On 1.9.1975, he was appointed as an Assistant Public Prosecutor by the Government of Bihar. Immediately on his appointment, he started receiving training in the Public Training Colleg