JUDGMENT :

The petitioners in these cases applied to be appointed as Additional Government Pleaders and Additional Public Prosecutors in the district of Thiruvananthapuram; and it is conceded that a list of such persons were drawn up by the District Collector and placed before the learned District Judge, Thiruvananthapuram in terms of the directions of this Court in Aju Mathew and others vs. State of Kerala represented by its Secretary, Thiruvananthapuram and others [2018(5) KHC 770].

2. The petitioners project their grievance that, even though the learned District Judge is stated to have made an assessment of all the persons in the list provided to him by the District Collector, they were excluded from the Final Panel prepared in terms of Aju Mathew (supra), but without assigning any reason whatsoever. They assert that they are all experienced lawyers, with sufficient period of practice; and therefore, that they could not have been found incapable of being recommended by the learned District Judge, as has been done in these cases. They thus pray that the Panel now prepared by the District Collector -in which their names have been included, with the remark that they are “not recommen