The petitioner challenges the selection of respondent No. 4 for the post of lecturer in music (vocal) and seeks a direction to the respondent-Public Service Commission to recommend his name for the post. Both the petitioner and respondent No 4 were candidates for the post of applications for which were invited by the J&K. Public Service Commission (the Commission, hereafter for short) pursuant to notification No. 12-PSC of 1992 dated 28.4.1992. It transpires that in all 8 candidates appeared for the interview of which respondent No. 4 has been recommend for selection The petitioners case is that he possessed better merit and suitability for the post and that the recommendation made id favour of respondent No. 4 is vitiated because the expert, one, Mrs. Bhupinder Sheet I co-opted by the Commission for interviewing the candidates happened to be the teacher of respondent No. 4 when she was a student of M. A. (Music) at the Punjab University and is also presently guiding her Ph programme It is also alleged that the Commission had allotted 100 marks for the interview out of which 7o were to be awarded by the expert, who, it is averred, played a key role in the selection and whose opini

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