WP(C) 2647/2008 BEFORE HON’BLR MR. JUSTICE RANJAN GOGOI All these writ petitions have been filed seeking a direction from the Co urt for publication of the final select list of eligible candidates for filing u p vacation posts of Constables in Assam Police in Dhubri District. According to the petitioners, the selection process has been completed a nd as the select list was not being published the writ petitions have been filed seeking appropriate directions in this regard. In the order dated 21.07.2008 this Court had recorded the stand of the C ommandant of the 28th AP (IR) Battalion who had acted as the Chairman of the Sel ection Committee for recruitment in Dhubri District. The said stand is to the ef fect that the selection process having been completed and the select list drawn up, the proceedings were submitted to the Police Headquarters on 30.05.2008. In such circumstances, the Court had required Shri B.J. Ghosh, learned Govt. Advoc ate, Assam, to obtain information with regard to the selection in question and a ppraise the Court accordingly. At the hearing today, Shri Ghosh, learned Govt. Advocate, Assam has plac ed before the Court, amongst others, a communication dated 18th of June 2008 add ressed to the Director General of Police by the Principal Secretary to the Govt. of Assam, Home (A) Department. In the said communication it has been stated tha t the State Government, on due consideration, has decided to cancel the recruitm ent process in Dhubri District and to resort to a fresh recruitment process by g iving opportunity to all candidates who had applied earlier. In the said communi cation it is further stated that a new selection committee with one Shri Shubraj yoti Hazarika, Commandant of 2nd Assam Police Battalion, Makum, as the Chairman, has been constituted for conducting the fresh recruitment process in Dhubri Dis trict. Though the learned counsels for the petitioners have submitted that no or der of the competent authority canceling the selections earlier held and initiat ion of a fresh process of selection has been notified, the Court cannot ignore t he communication dated 18th of June, 2008 placed before it by the learned Govt. Advocate, Assam. If the decision of the Government to cancel the recruitment pro cess and initiate a fresh process is to remain, naturally, the relief sought for i.e. for publication of the select list on the basis of the selections already held (now cancelled) cannot arise. In the above circumstances, the Court deems it proper to hold that in vi ew of the subsequent facts, as noticed above, all these writ petitions have bec ome redundant. The petitioners may, if they are so inclined and so advised, challenge t he cancellation of the earlier process and initiation of a fresh process of sele ction by filing fresh petitions along with the reliefs already prayed for in the present writ petitions. The concerned respondents will now formally notify the decision of the G overnment to cancel the recruitment process in Dhubri District and initiate a fr esh process so as to enable the aggrieved persons to avail of their legal remedi es, if they so chose. This will be doe forthwith and without any delay. All the writ petitions shall stand disposed of in terms of the above dir ections. A copy of the communication dated 18th of June, 2008 be kept on record o f these cases.