Petitioner is an Additional Director of Public Relations in the service of the respondent State. The original petition was filed on 25-3-1992 challenging the two proceedings Exts.P12 and P13 of the Government by which the petitioner was informed that his claim for being posted as Director of Cultural Affairs could not be granted and that the earlier decisions rejecting such a claim did not require reconsideration. The original petition was subsequently sought to be amended by filing CMP.No.15954 of 1992 to quash the appointment of one E.K. Bharath Bhooshan an officer borne in the LAS. cadre as Director of Public Relations by the proceedings Ext.P16 dated 26-6-1992. This petition was allowed on 20th July, 1992.

2. Before proceeding to state the facts of the case or dealing with the contentions raised by the parties, I must mention a feature that has been noted in many of the original petitions that have come up before me for hearing. Leave is often granted by this court for amending the original petitions incorporating new averments and new prayers besides producing new documents. Very often the amendments are not

carried out in the original petition; nor copies of the am