A.K. Ganguly, C.J.

Heard Mr. M. Radhakrishnan in person, who is a practising advocate of this Court and also the learned Government Pleader for the State. The challenge in this writ petition is to the notification issued by the Government in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette Extraordinary dated 11. 2007, prescribing therein the method of appointment, qualification and age for recruitment to the post of Civil Judge (Junior Division), hereinafter referred to as the said post. The petitioner-in-person submits that while prescribing qualification for appointment to the aforesaid post, in Column-4, the following qualification has been prescribed :

"Must be a fresh Law Graduate possessing a degree in law from a recognized University as mentioned in clause (1) above, who is eligible to be enrolled or enrolled as an Advocate and who has secured at the final year examination of the Degree in law not less than an average of 50% marks in case of open categories. In respect of the other reserved categories, they must have secured an average of 45% marks. Fresh Law Graduates are those who have obtained the degree of Law within a period of three years prior to the date of notification