JUDGMENT - Mrs. SUJATA V. MANOHAR, J.:---The petitioner passed his L.L.B. examination from Poona University in 1968 and was enrolled as an Advocate on the rolls of the Bar Council of Maharashtra on 1-11-1968. The petitioner after his enrolment was a practising lawyer at Chandraput and Nagpur. At Nagpur he had practised mostly in the High Court.

2. On 6-10-1976 the petitioner was appointed Deputy Registrar at the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court. In March 1977 an advertisement was published inviting applications for the posts of District Judges. The Petitioner applied for the post. He was, however, not called for interview. Thereafter, on 15th October, 1980 an advertisement was issued by the High Court at Bombay inviting applications for five posts of District Judges in the Judicial Service of the State of Maharashtra. Paragraph 2 of the press advertisement stated "candidate must ordinarily be an Advocate of pleader who has practised in the High Court, Bombay or courts subordinate thereto for not less than seven years on the 1st October, 1980." The petitioner applied for the post of a District Judge by his application dated 26th October, 1980. There was no reply to this applicat

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