JUDGMENT

Raveendran, J.—These petitions under Article 32 of the Constitution of India have been filed by the unsuccessful candidates who appeared in the examinations conducted by the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (‘Commission for short) for recruitment to the posts of Civil Judge (Junior Division).

2. On the request of the Allahabad High Court, to conduct the examination for filling 347 posts of Civil Judge (Junior Division), the Commission issued an advertisement in the Employment News dated 28.11.2003. As many as 51524 candidates appeared for the “U.P. Judicial Service Civil Judge, (Junior Division) Preliminary Examination, 2003” conducted by the Commission on 21.3.2004. The preliminary examination was of ‘objective’ type consisting of two papers – General Knowledge and Law. The result was declared on 30.6.2004 and 6046 candidates were declared qualified to appear for the “U.P. Civil Judge (Junior Division) Examination (Main), 2003” which was of ‘descriptive’ (conventional) type. The Main examination consisted of five papers (each carrying 200 marks) - General Knowledge, Language, Law I, II and III - and was held between 5th and 7th October, 2004. The number of candidate