Hon’ble Ashok Bhushan, J.—The issues raised in the above writ petitions being inter-related, the writ petitions have been heard together and are being disposed of by this common judgment. Civil Misc. Writ Petition No. 48149 of 2003, Dr. Vishwajeet Singh and others v. State of U.P. and others contains extensive pleadings of both the parties hence, the same is being treated as leading writ petition. The other writ petitions are to be decided on the basis of the decision in the leading writ petition.

2. We have heard Sri Rajeev Misra, Sri P.S. Baghel Advocates for the petitioners,Sri Jaideep Mathur, Additional Advocate General for the State respondents and Sri H.N. Singh, learned Counsel for the respondent Higher Education Service Commission.

3. It is sufficient to refer to the pleadings of writ petition No. 48149 of 2003, Dr. Vishwajeet Singh, the leading writ petition for considering the issues raised in this bunch of writ petitions. The facts of the leading writ petition are; the petitioners of the writ petition who are four in numbers claim to be duly qualified for appointment on the post of Lecturer in Graduate/Post Graduate Colleges in the State of U.P., have challenged