ORDER :

1. By way of this petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, these petitioners 36 in numbers have prayed for the following reliefs :

“21(A) Your Lordships may be pleased to allow this Special Civil Application.

(B) Your Lordships may be pleased to issue a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ or direction or order directing the respondent authorities to permit the petitioners to take part in the process of promotion/recruitment to the post of PSI Unarmed Class-III (Mode-III) and further be pleased to direct the respondent authorities to permit the petitioners to participate in all stages of the said promotion process, and thereafter to issue the necessary orders of promotion once they fulfill and clear all the stages of the said process successfully;

(C) By way of interim relief, this Hon’ble Court may be pleased to direct the respondent authorities to accept the application form of petitioners for the process of the promotion/recruitment pursuant to the advertisement at Annexure A of the petition and to permit the petitioners to participate in all the stages of the said promotion/recruitment process, in the interest of justice;

(D) Pass any such other an