Hon’ble Sudhir Agarwal, J.—Writ Petition No. 48688 of 2006 (hereinafter referred to as the “1st set”) filed by six petitioners, namely, Taram Dhwaj, Brijesh Kumar Singh, Amar Nath Yadav, Rajesh Kumar, Vinod Kumar and Gajendra Singh, seeking writ of mandamus commanding the respondents to appoint them on the post of Assistant Radio Wireless Operator against the vacancies advertised on 7.9.2001 and 25.4.2005 and also to quash the selection process/result and appointment already made on the post of Assistant Radio Wireless Operator.

2. The case of the petitioner is that they are Ex-servicemen retired from various armed forced on various dates in the year 2001-02-03. The State Government vide Government Order dated 28th July, 1999 has provided 5% reservation for Ex-Serviceman vide advertisement dated 17.9.2001. The respondents advertised 890 vacancies of Assistant Radio Wireless Operator (hereinafter referred to as A.R.W.O). However, above selection could not be materialised and subsequently vide advertisement dated 15th September, 2004 further 170 vacancies of A.R.W.O. were advertised. The said selection also did not proceed and third advertisement was published on 14th May, 200