Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan, J.

1. These original petitions are filed by the Public Service Commission invoking Article 227 of the Constitution of India. It challenges different verdicts of the Kerala Administrative Tribunal interfering with the PSC's decisions refusing to re-schedule the physical efficiency test of the woman candidates who were passing through different milestones of pregnancy or maternity when they were called for such test for the purpose of recruitment to the post of Excise Guards or Women Police Constables.

2. The learned standing counsel for the PSC, also making reference to Rangaswamy v. PSC [1982 KLT 574] and J. & K.Public Service Commission v. Narinder Mohan [AIR 1994 SC 1808], argued that the process of finalisation of the select list is not an act or event which occurs in a single day, that is to say, on the date of publication of the select list. He says that the process of finalisation of the select list, going by the procedure prescribed, would necessarily take reasonable time from the finalisation of initial select list till the approval of that draft by the competent finalising authority after it being vetted at different stages to make it