Banerjee, J.

This is an appeal filed by the appellants who were not parties in writ application after obtaining leave from this Court. The appeal was also filed with 234 days' delay which was also condoned.

2. The fact of the case in short is that in the month of January 1995 names of twenty candidates including the appellants herein were sponsored by the local Employment Exchange for the purpose of appointment in the post of Clerk in Bankura Junior High School and thereafter the said candidates appeared in the Interview on November 29, 1995 at 11 a m. pursuant to the letters issued by the Secretary, Managing Committee of the said school. It is the case of the appellants that at the time when they appeared before the Selection Board for Interview, they found one candidate whose name was not sponsored by the Employment Exchange appeared there for Interview and for that the appellants refused to appear in the Interview and a letter to that effect was given by them to the Secretary of the Managing Committee of the school. In the letter addressed to the Secretary it was stated that they were the candidates sponsored by the Employment Exchange and as because the Managing Committee