MC 2398/2011 BEFORE HON’BLE MR JUSTICE B D AGARWAL This application has been filed by the applicant/writ petitioner, praying for di recting the respondent No. 2, not to proceed with the selection process of recru itment of Assistant Audit Officers. Heard Sri N N Karmakar, learned counsel for the applicant/writ p etitioner and Sri D Saikia, learned Standing Counsel for the Finance Department. The Finance Department has issued the process for filing up 80 ( eighty) posts of Assistant Audit Officers. The advertisement was issued on 09.07 .2010. Pursuant to the said advertisement, more than 27,000 candidates appeared in the examination. The writ petitioner also appeared in the written test. After appearing in the examination, he has filed the writ petition, assailing the ent ire selection process. Sri Karmakar, learned counsel submitted that under Rule 23 of th e Assam Local Fund Audit Service (Amendment) Rules, 1997, direct recruitments sh ould be done through competitive examinations in consultation with the Selection Board. Sri Karmakar, learned counsel submitted that the appointing authority is completing the process without any such consultation. On the other hand, Sri Saikia, learned Standing Counsel for the Finance Department, submitted that in the meanwhile, results of the written examination are already announced and the writ petitioner has not come out successful. Sri Saikia, submi tted that after the pronouncement of the result, oral interview is under process , which commenced from 25.08.2011 and it is going to be concluded on 3rd of Sept ember 2011. The learned Standing Counsel further submitted that the Department h as a Selection Board and that Board is already conducting the full interview pro cess. According to the learned counsel, the appointing authority is al so consulting the Selection Board time to time. Be that as it may, at this stage, I am not inclined to stay the process of selection of 80 (eighty) numbers of Assistant Audit Officers at the i nstance of one writ petitioner, who himself had not come out successful in the m ain examination. Accordingly, the prayer stands rejected. Misc Case, accordingly, stands disposed of.