1. This writ petition has been filed on being aggrieved by the rejection of the application submitted by the petitioner for appointment to the post of Munsiff-Magistrate under the Kerala Judicial Service in pursuance of Ext.P1 notification. It was rejected on the ground that the petitioner had failed to sign on the photograph affixed on the application. The contention of the petitioner is that rejecting the application for the said failure is an extreme step and therefore, it is liable to be interfered. To buttress the said contention, the learned counsel for the petitioner relied on Ext.P5 judgment of this Court in W.P. (C).Nos.10989 of 2012 and 10991 of 2012. In the case of the petitioners therein, under similar circumstances, attributing same defects, their applications were rejected. Ultimately, after consideration of all the aspects, this Court disposed of the said writ petitions with a direction to the respondents to process their candidature as if they had submitted valid applications. There is no case for the respondents that the said judgment was subsequently, interfered with in appeal and that the petitioners were not permitted to participate in the selection p