JUDGMENT :

Pankaj Mithal, CJ.

1. The State of Jammu and Kashmir and the Jammu and Kashmir Service Selection Board together have preferred this LPA against the judgment and order dated 3rd May 2018 passed by the learned Single Judge allowing SWP No. 670/2017 with the direction to the State authorities to operate the wait list of the Junior Engineers (Civil) for the period of one year so as to accord appointment to the candidates from the wait list to the post of Junior Engineer (Civil) against the vacancies falling vacant due to resignation of the candidates selected and joining.

2. The Selection Board issued an Advertisement Notification No. 02/2014, dated 30.12.2014 inviting applications for filling up large number of posts of Junior Engineers (Civil). In pursuance of the above advertisement, the petitioners-respondents applied. The selection list was notified on 29.04.2016 and the petitioners-respondents were placed in the waiting list. Subsequent to the aforesaid selection list, the selected candidates were appointed in terms of the Government Order dated 25.05.2016, but two of the selected candidates failed to join. Accordingly, in their place, two persons at serial Nos. 1 and 2 f