COMMON ORDER

Heard the learned senior counsel and the learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned Additional Advocate General assisted by the learned standing counsel for the respondents.

2.The writ petitioners herein filed W.P.(MD)Nos.24004, 24265 and 24266 of 2022 questioning their exclusion at the time of oral test. This Court after hearing the learned counsel on either side allowed the said writ petitions. Pursuant to the said orders, the writ petitioners were permitted to take part in the oral test. However, their results have been withheld. The note appended to the selection list reads as under:-

“Note : The publication of the above Consolidated Mark List is purely provisional subject to outcome of W.P.(MD) Nos.24004, 2526, 25266, 24666 of 2022 and W.P. No.28828 & 28916 of

2022 and other Writ Petitions, if any, pending on the files of the Hon'ble High Court of Judicature at Madras / Madurai Bench of Madras High Court relating to this recruitment.”

3.It is too obvious that when the writ petitions filed by the writ petitioners herein had been finally disposed of, TNPSC has chosen to proceed in the matter as if the writ petitions are still pending. The writ petition filed by