JUDGMENT

Moushumi Bhattacharya, J. - The petitioners before the Court responded to an advertisement of 14.1.2011 for filling up a few designated posts for non-teaching staff in the Bikramjeet Goswami Memorial College, Purulia. The petitioners applied for the said posts and appeared in the written examination on 6.2.2011. The petitioners state that they successfully completed the written examination and received a call for appearing before the Standing Committee for an interview on 13.6.2011. The interview was however not held as scheduled. The petitioners allege that several persons were appointed in the advertised posts thereafter. The petitioners further allege that all the appointees were related to members of the Governing Body or the Principal of the College. The petitioners seek quashing of the selection and the appointments of the candidates being respondent nos. 9-15, to the posts of non-teaching staff in the College.

2. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioners alleges bias on the part of the Governing Body and submits that each of the appointees was related in some manner or the other to the President and Members of the Governing Body as well as the Standing Committee o