By the Court.—The above two Writ Petitions have been filed by the petitioners under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, inter alia, praying for quashing the Guidelines framed by the U.P. Higher Education Services Commission (in short ‘the Commission’) for the purposes of selection of lecturers in Degree Colleges and Post Graduate Colleges in pursuance of Advertisement No. 41 of 2007, and further, for directing the Commission to hold the interview of the petitioners in the above Writ Petitions for the post of lecturer in Political Science in pursuance of the Advertisement No. 41 of 2007.

2. The facts of the above two Writ Petitions are similar, and the questions of law involved in the said Writ Petitions are also similar, therefore, both the Writ Petitions are being disposed of by this common judgment. Civil Misc. Writ Petition No. 3326 of 2009 will be treated as the leading case.

It may be mentioned at the outset that in Civil Misc. Writ Petition No. 3326 of 2009, the affidavits have been exchanged between the parties. As regards Civil Misc. Writ Petition No. 6733 of 2009, learned counsel for the parties are agreed that the affidavits need not be exchanged between the p