1. Jammu and Kashmir Service Selection Recruitment Board (The Board for short) vide Advertisement Notice No. 03 of 2008, dated 5th August 2008, invited applications from eligible candidates, for filling up amongst others 72 posts of Drug Inspector referred to it by, Health and Medical Education Department. The Advertisement Notice gave breakup of the available vacancies as also the eligibility criteria prescribed under the relevant Recruitment Rules. The Board on 26th July, 2008, notified the selection criteria for the advertised posts. The criteria was later recast and notified on 12th June 2009. Change in selection criteria was questioned in a writ petition being SWP No. 884/2009. However the Writ Court on 1st September 2009, modified ad-interim order granted earlier and allowed the respondent Board to proceed with the selection process, providing that the process would remain subject to the outcome of writ petition.

2. Be that as it may, the selection process was finalized and select list published on 8th September 2009. Petitioners in writ petitions on hand i.e. SWP Nos. 1356,1535 and 1846 of 2009, participated in the selection process, but did not find place in the sele