( 1 ) IN this writ petition the petitioners have sought a mandamus to Delhi Administration to fill up the second vacancy (in the Committee of Inquiry) in accordance with Government of India notification No. F. 10 (9)/98, dated February 22, 1988. They have also sought direction to the Committee of Inquiry to change the venue of the proceedings to a place outside Delhi. In the stay application a blanket stay of further proceedings before the Committee of Inquiry (till the final disposal of the writ petition) is sought. We have heard this writ petition for five days. On 27th April 1989 when hri K. T. S. Tulsi, Senior Advocate for the petitioners concluded his arguments by way of reply to the arguments on behalf of the respondents, he wanted to move an application for amending the writ petition. Since the petition had come at a very late stage and since we had heard the counsel for the petitioners at length, we refused the permission. At the time of the arguments, counsel for the respondents pointed out to us certain deviations made by the counsel for the petitioners from the original writ petition, and the earlier orders of this Court; but considering the fact that at th