WP(C) 6430/2010 BEFORE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE AMITAVA ROY HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE K. MERUNO (Amitava Roy, J) Heard Mr RC Saikia, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr SS Dey, le arned Standing Counsel, Gauhati High Court for the respondents. The petitioner who had been appointed as a Peon on 1.4.2005 and attached to the establishment of the SDJM (S), Nalbari on temporary basis had approached this Court earlier with WP(C) No. 720/2007 complaining against the inaction on the part of the concerned official respondents in not initiating a process for r egular appointment to the posts in Grade-III and Grade-IV in terms of the Chief Judicial Magistrate’s Establishment Ministerial Service Rules, 1987 (for short, hereinafter referred to as ’the Rules’). Several other persons similarly situat ed also instituted different writ proceedings which eventually were disposed of by a common judgment and order by a Division Bench of this Court on 9.4.2010. T he operative portion of this verdict which is of utmost significance is quoted h erebelow: (A) That the respondent authorities shall take up immediate necessary steps for recruitment and appointment of the attached peons in the District and Sub-Di visional judicial establishments by holding regular process of recruitment. (B) Until such recruitment process is carried out in accordance with the rel evant recruitment rules, the petitioners, who are still in service, shall not be terminated or dismissed from services, arbitrarily without resorting to due pro cess of law. (C) It is made clear that while undertaking the process of recruitment of at tached peons, the petitioners who are still working, and the petitioners who hav e been terminated from service, shall be given due weightage for their past serv ice and experience, and their overages shall be condoned to enable them to parti cipate in the selection process. . As would be evident from the text of the judgment, the petitioner was sh own to be in service at that point of time. He has returned to this Court with t he grievance that though such a process has in fact been launched by the notice dated 30.10.2010 issued by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nalbari for filling up two posts of Office Peon in his establishment, the same did neither mention abo ut the relaxations provided by the judgment and order referred to hereinabove vi s-à-vis the petitioners covered thereby, nor was his candidature accepted when o ffered on the ground of being over-aged. After hearing the learned counsel for the parties, this Court by order d ated 10.12.2010, without prejudice to their rights and contentions had permitted the petitioner to participate in the interview that was scheduled to be held in connection with the aforementioned process. It is submitted at the Bar that in compliance of this order the petitioner in fact has appeared in the interview bu t the results area awaited. Keeping in view the intervening developments as above, in the opinion of this Court, the petitioner’s grievance as highlighted in the instant proceeding for the present stands redressed. This petition is, therefore, closed. The petitioner is left at liberty to approach this Court or any other ap propriate forum if a cause of action in law so permits. No costs.