[Per : Hon’ble B.S. Verma, J.]

Since both the Special Appeals are directed against common judgment and order dated 15.1.2009 passed by the learned Single Judge of this Court, in Writ Petition No. 815 of 2008 (S/S) Ravinder Saklani and two others Vs. State and others and Writ Petition No. 849 of 2008 (S/S), Narain Singh Bisht Vs. State and two others and as the controversy involved in both the appeals is similar, therefore, for the sake of convenience, they are being decided together by this common judgment.

2. Brief facts giving rise to the present appeals are that the Transport Commissioner, Uttarakhand, Dehradun issued an advertisement on 9.9.2005 thereby applications were invited from the eligible candidates for direct recruitment to the post of enforcement constables under the control of Transport Commissioner, Dehradun, which was published in daily newspaper on 10.9.2005. In the advertisement, the number of posts reserved and unreserved were categorized with a total of 112 posts of enforcement constables. The procedure of recruitment was also exposed in the advertisement. The posts of enforcement constables are governed by Uttarakhand Transport Department Enforcement