JUDGMENT :

1. The Court has heard Sri Ashok Khare, learned Senior Counsel assisted by Sri Seemant Singh for the petitioners, Sri Avneesh Tripathi who has addressed submissions on behalf of the Commission and Sri Piyush Shukla, the learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the State-respondents.

2. All the petitioners had participated in a selection process initiated by the respondents for appointment of Trained Graduate Teachers in English. It is their case that they were initially permitted by the respondents to participate in the recruitment exercise. According to the petitioners, at the stage of document verification the testimonials submitted by them online were not accepted by the respondents and they all received error messages of either having entered an invalid roll number or password. Upon enquiries being made they were apprised that all of them were found to be ineligible since they did not possess the essential qualification as stipulated in the advertisement. The advertisement required all applicants applying for appointment as Trained Graduate Teachers in English to hold a Graduate degree in “English Literature” conferred by a University duly established by law or su