1. The Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission vide its notification No.09-PSC(DR-P) of 2016 dated 19.03.2016 invited applications for selection to the post of Lecturer in various disciplines in the School Education Department of the State. The petitioner applied for the post of Lecturer (Botany) under Scheduled Tribe category. The Public Service Commission after concluding the selection process issued a select list for the post of 10+2 Lecturer (Botany) in the School Education Department vide notification No.43-PSC (DR-S) of 2017 dated 04.08.2017. As is apparent from the select list, the petitioner could not make it to the select list but was placed at serial No.1 in the wait list of Scheduled Tribe category. In the Scheduled Tribe category in as many as 12 persons came to be selected. Pursuant to the recommendations made by the Public Service Commission, appointment orders in favour of all the selected candidates were issued by respondent No.1 vide Government Order No.704-Edu of 2017 dated 03.10.2017. It is not in dispute that all the appointed candidates joined in different institutions where they were posted.

2. The grievance of the petitioner is that the candidate