N. Paul Vasanthakumar, J.

1. By consent the Letters Patent Appeal is taken up for final disposal.

2. The Registry also informed this Court that certain other candidates have also filed similar writ petitions before the Jammu Wing of this Court and common issues are raised in those writ petitions. This Court directed the Registry to identify the cases and the Registrar Judicial at Jammu identified the above numbered writ petitions (SWP Nos. 1944, 1917, 1946, 1961, 2030, 2033, 2047, 2049 and 2138 of 2015) wherein also the similar issues regarding the selection of Prosecuting Officers have been raised. Having regard to the said fact, we also arranged for a sitting at Jammu Wing on 21.09.2015 and heard the arguments of the respective counsels for the writ petitioners as well as Mr. W.S. Nargal, AAG for the State. The Letters Patent appeal is filed against the order of the learned Single Judge dated 13.08.2015 made in SWP no. 1361/2015, dismissing the writ petition filed by the appellants along with four other connected writ petitions.

3. The appellants as well as the writ petitioners herein had preferred the writ petition praying to quash the written test conducted by the respon