3 twenty five per cent of the posts in the rank of Assistant Sub Inspectors are to be filled in by direct recruitment and the remaining seventy five per cent are to be filled by promotion; (c) that the State adopted a device of making ad hoc appointment of the Assistant Sub Inspectors by posting Head Constables as Assistant Sub Inspectors and the whole action was mala fide as the State Government intended to select and appoint its own favourites, (d) that the action of the Government in not appointing them pursuant to the recommendation of the Board is violative of articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution; (e) that even after the abolition of the Board the candidates recommended by it could not be refused appointment on the ground that the Board later on became functus officio; and (f) that even after the expiry of six months fixed by the Government instructions the petitioners could be appointed on the basis of recommendation of the Board.