JUDGMENT :

Heard Mr. A.R. Bhuyan, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr. D. Mozumdar, learned Additional Advocate General for the State, assisted by Mr. D. Nath, learned Senior Government Advocate.

Stand taken in the writ petition, in brief, and reliefs ought for :

2. In brief, the case of the petitioners is that by filing W.P.(C) No. 2725/2010, they had assailed the selection process of Armed Branch Constable in the Assam Police which was undertaken in the year 2009. By judgment and order dated 22.02.2019, this Court had disposed of the said writ petition by directing the respondent authorities to consider the cases of the petitioners in the said writ petition for appointment in Armed Branch Constable (hereinafter referred to as ‘AB Constable’ for short) or in any other equivalent post in the vacancies available and it was further ordered that the respondent authorities would not fill up the post of AB Constable without considering the cases of the petitioners. Pursuant to the said judgment dated 22.02.2019, the Director General of Police (respondent no.2), by passing a speaking order dated 21.10.2019 purportedly in compliance of W.P.(C) 2725/2010, rejected the cases of the petit