By the Court.—This Review Petition No. 59691 of 2014 filed in Special Appeal No. 442 of 2012 and the connected special appeals arise out of common judgment and order of the learned Single Judge dated 8th February, 2012 passed in a bunch of writ petitions leading being Writ-A No. 61659 of 2010 (Ranjeet Kumar Singh and others v. State of U.P. and others). All the appeals have been clubbed together. The review petition filed in Special Appeal No. 442 of 2012 had been nominated to this Bench for hearing under the order of the Hon’ble The Chief Justice dated 24th April, 2014.

2. Facts in short relevant for deciding the present matter are as follows:

U.P. Secondary Education Selection Board (hereinafter referred to as the “Board”) published an advertisement No. 01 of 2009 on 15th January, 2009 inviting applications for the post of Trained Graduate Teachers in the subject of Social Science. Petitioners, before the Writ Court, are stated to have applied in response thereto and to have participated in the process of selections. Selections were held on the basis of multiple choice questions to be answered on OMR sheets. The result of written examination was declared on 18th June, 201