WA 156/2010 BEFORE HON’BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE MR.R.S.GARG HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE T NANDAKUMAR SINGH Heard Mr.HS Thangkhiew, learned counsel for the appellant, Mr.B Gogoi, learned S tanding Counsel for Health Department, Mr.A Nath, learned Govt. Advocate for the State of Meghalaya and Mr.K Khan, learned counsel for the original writ petitio ner. It is most unfortunate that Officers of the State who are required to read the o rder passed by this Court are not reading the order, if they are reading the ord er they are unable to understand the contents of the order and if they are under standing the order then there are not ready and willing to follow or implement t he said order. It is further unfortunate that an order passed by this Court in simple English w hich can be understood by a student of Class VI could not be understood by the O fficer on Special Duty to the Govt. of Meghalaya. In our last order, we had asked the Government to inform us that what persuaded the Government to refer the matter relying upon the past practice. On 3.6.2010, we required the State of Meghalaya to inform us under the affidavit of Director of Health Services that in the earlier years whether merit was shown to be the c riteria for making recommendations and that giving go bye to the merits, seniori ty was taken into consideration and recommendations were made by them. The State Government in its long affidavit has simply refer to the question of merits and has not stated a single word in relation to the past practice which runs contra ry to the requirement of the Rules. Let the State Government through its competent officer (?) go through our earlie r order sheets, understand what we had asked them and file the affidavit. Put up on 22.6.2010. Learned counsel for the parties submit that the matter comes from Shillong and a s a regular Division Bench is available, the matter be transferred to Shillong B ench. For the purpose, the matter be placed before the Chief Justice on the admi nistrative side.