( 1 ) ). This Letters Patent Appeal has been directed against the orders pronounced by the learned single Judge in Special Civil Application No. 6775 of 1986 dated 30/11/1992. The relief accorded to the petitioner by the learned single Judge vide the said orders runs thus :". . . Accordingly, I would direct the respondent to operate the select list of Depot manager published in the month of April, 1985 so far as petitioner is concerned and to give appointment to the petitioner to the post of Depot Manager within four weeks from the receipt of the writ of this Court. Rule is accordingly made absolute to the aforesaid extent. "

( 2 ) ). The question which arises for our consideration in the present Letters patent Appeal may be formulated thus :". . Whether a Select List drawn up in confirmity with the existing Recruitment rules for filling up the existing vacancies can be abandoned and the process of selection which had culminated in drawing up of such a Selection List can be set at naught either (A) Because of the coming into operation of the New Rules which are only prospective in nature, or (B) Because of a subsequent settlement between the employer and some of the in servi