1. This is an application for the issue of the appropriate writ to call for the records leading to Ext. P. 4 order and for quashing the same. The petitioner P. Kunhikrishnan Nair was a Panchayat Assistant of the

Naripetta Panchayat. He had applied for appointment as a Panchayat Executive Officer, and the Deputy Director of Panchayats, Kozikode, by his order dated 3 21962, a copy of which is produced and marked as Ext. P.1, appointed the petitioner provisionally to the post of Panchayat Executive Officer of Kunnummal Panchayat. The relevant portion of Ext. P.1 order is as follows:

"The candidate is specially informed that the appointment now made is purely temporary and it will not confer on him any right or claim for continuance or future appointment in Government service but he will be entitled only to the emoluments attached to the post and he will be reverted to his original post in case he is not selected by the Kerala Public Service Commission."

The petitioner was subsequently selected by the Public Service Commission for appointment as Panchayat Executive Officer. Thereafter the petitioner was served with an order, copy of which is marked as Ext. P.4. Ext. P. 4 read