WP(C) 5867/2003 BEFORE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE AMITAVA ROY Heard Mr. RM Choudhury, learned counsel for the petitioners and Mr. D Das, learned Standing Counsel, Bodoland Territorial Council (for short ref erred to as the ’Council’). The petitioners, 46 in numbers, have approached this Court for a n appropriate writ and/or direction to the respondents to appoint them in the po st of Assistant Teacher/Demonstrators/Subject Teacher in HS/HE Schools in the th en Nalbari district, now located within the BTAD on the basis of the select list 28.05.2003, prepared by the then Secretary of Education, Bodoland Autonomous Co uncil, Kokrajhar, Assam. Sans the unnecessary details, it would suffice to mention that t he petitioners have contended that they had duly participated in the process pre ceding the said select list and being duly selected, are entitled to be appointe d. As, inspite of their selection they have been denied appointment, they have, approached this Court for redress. The Director of Education, BAC, Kokrajhar, Assam, in his affidavit has pleaded t hat on a scrutiny of the records, the selection of 33 petitioners, as enumerated in the Annexure to the communication No. DE/BTC/CC/S/Nal/3/04/84, dated 07.12.2 007, has been found to be valid and that necessary steps have been taken to faci litate their appointments. The answering respondent, however, has dismissed the claim of the remaining 13 petitioners’ to be untenable, as their names did not figure in the approved select list. Mr. Das, to be precise, has pointed out that the petitioner Nos. 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 , 27, 28, 31, 36, 39, 40, 41, 42 are not found to have been selected. Mr. Choudhury, confronted with the above, has submitted that the petition be closed with a direction to the Council to expedite the appointment of 33 petitioners, whose selection have been found to be valid. The learned Standing Counsel, concurs with the mode of disposal as suggested. In the above view of the matter, having regard to the pleaded facts and the subm issions made, this petition is closed with a direction to the official responden ts, more particularly, the respondent No. 7, Director of Education, BAC, Kokrajh ar, Assam, to cause immediate steps to be taken for expeditious completion of th e process undertaken for appointment of the 33 petitioners aforementioned, in th e posts for which they have been selected. As the petitioners are wait in expectation, this Court, having r egard to the official formalities to be attended to in the matter, fixes an oute r limit of three (3) months for the respondents to complete the exercise as abov e. The petition stands partly allowed in the above terms. No costs.