Mr. V.M. Tarkunde submitted that in spite of the Commissioner having approved the selection made on 6th and 7th March, 1979 by the Selection Board constituted for direct recruitment of Assistant Engineers the petitioners in Writ petition 1194 of 1979 who have been selected for appointment as Assistant Engineers have not been appointed and that on the other hand on 21.6.1979 under orders of the Deputy Commissioner dated 19.6.1979 two Junior Engineers have been posted as Assistant Engineers (Civil) on Current Charge basis with immediate effect and that by the order dated 5.6.1979 pursuant to the Commissioner 's order dated 2.6.1979 Sukhbir Singh, one of the petitioners, against whom some departmental proceedings appear to have been pending, had been promoted as Assistant Engineer (Civil) w.e.f. 2.1.1975 and ordered to continue in the post in which he was working on adhoc basis though the final seniority list dated 2.9.1979 (Annexure G) shows that 26 posts of Assistant Engineers to be filled by direct recruitment are kept vacant right from 1971.