ORDER

29.10.2003 — This writ petition is filed by 25 petitioners, who intend to apply for recruitment to the Orissa Judicial Service, Class II. Case of the writ petitioners inter alia is that the last examina¬tion for recruitment to the Orissa Judicial Service, Class II was held in 1999-2000 and thereafter more than three years have passed, but the State Government has not taken any steps for recruitment of candidates to fill up the existing vacancies in Orissa Judicial Service, Class II. As a result of such delay, there is serious frustration amongst the petitioners. The peti¬tioners have therefore prayed for a direction to the State Gov¬ernment to issue a notification for the examination for recruit¬ment to the Orissa Judicial Service, Class II immediately. The petitioners have also prayed for a tentative time frame to be fixed by the Court for completion of the entire selection pro¬cess. The petitioners have further prayed that some outside Universities may be short-listed for setting the question papers and evaluating the answer papers of the candidates, who will take the examination for recruitment to the Orissa Judicial Service, Class II.

2. Mr. Palit, learned counsel for pet