Honble Arun Tandon, J.—Heard learned counsel for the petitioner Sri Umesh Narain Sharma, Senior Advocate assisted by Sri Chandan Sharma and Jai Prakash, Advocate, learned Chief Standing Counsel on behalf of the State Respondents, Sri R.P. Dubey, Advocate on behalf of the respondent Selection Board and Sri P.S. Baghel, Senior Advocate along with Sri Radhey Shyam Dwivedi, Sri Raj Kumar Tripathi, Sri N.K. Tripathi, Sri Ravidra Kumar, Sri Shyam Lal Yadav, Sri Kamlesh Shukla, Sri Bhupendra Nath, Sri B.P. Yadav, Sri Jitendra Kumar Pandey, Sri Shiv Ram Singh, Advocates as well as other advocates on behalf of the private respondents.

2. Facts giving rise to the present writ petition in short are as follows :

In order to fill up 399 vacancies of teachers in trained graduates grade in the subject of Social Science in different recognized and aided High School and Intermediate institutions (hereinafter referred to as ‘Institutions’), the U.P. Secondary Education Services Selection Board (hereinafter referred to ‘Selection Board’) vide advertisement No. 1 of 2005 dated 17.9.2005 invited applications from eligible candidates. In pursuance thereof, the petitioners and large number of othe