1. (Oral)- All these 689 writ petitions arise out of the selection held by the Rajasthan Public Service Commission under the Rajasthan Subordinate Offices Ministerial Staff Rules, 1957 for the post of LDC in the various subordinate offices under the Government of Rajasthan, Secretariat of the Government of Rajasthan and the Rajasthan Public Service Commission. The petitioners have come with the grievance that, although, the candidates having lesser percentage of marks in the examination held by the Rajasthan Public Service Commission have been appointed on the post of LDC, whereas they have been deprived of this appointment despite their higher percentage of marks.

2. Before I proceed with the facts and submissions made in these cases, it may be pointed out that earlier a bunch of 58 writ petitions was decided on 1st August, 1990 by a single bench of this Court [(1) judgment reported in 1990 (1) RLR 45] with regard to the same controversy being raised on behalf of 58 petitioners in those cases and all these 58 writ petitions were allowed on 1st August, 1990, in the following terms:-

"9. As already given out by the learned counsel for the respondents, 140 seats remained unfil