By the Court.—Under challenge in this special appeal is the judgment and order of the learned single Judge dated 29.4.2007 passed in Civil Misc. Writ Petition No. 3790 of 2004, Rajesh Kumar Srivastava and others v. State of U.P. and others, concerning selection and appointment of class - IV employees and a driver of the judgeship of the district Kaushambi. The writ petition of the appellants herein was dismissed by the learned single Judge and the selection of the respondents No. 4 to 25 was held to be valid.

2. Two separate advertisements were issued by the District Judge, Kaushambi on 28.5.2003. The first advertisement, apart from inviting applications for the posts of Stenographers and Clerks, sought to fill up 21 posts of class-IV employees. The second advertisement was in respect of a solitary post of driver.

3. The advertisement for the post of class-IV employees provided that the minimum qualification for applying for the said post is class-VIII pass or an equivalent qualification thereto with good knowledge of Hindi and ability to read and write numbers in English. For the purpose of selection it was also provided that for testing knowledge of Hindi a written test s