required to maintain record of the petitioners have come out with a plea that, they have lost the certificates. These certificates were produced by the petitioners in the year 1983 and were part of service record. Surprisingly, all these petitioners are residents of other States. No such suspicion has been raised regarding appointments of remaining 14001500 constables who are stated to be from the State of Gujarat. On one hand, these certificates are claimed to have been lost by the Employer and coincidently, at that very moment, an anonymous application is received by the employer that let these certificates be again asked from the concerned constables. The authority seems to have not taken into consideration the fact that these constables have come from other States and had left their homes 20/30 years ago. Most of these constables seem to be from the States of U.P. and Bihar etc. It is known fact that schools and village panchayats of these States are not well equipped to maintain the record in a proper way. This is particularly so when places where such records are kept gets generally washed away during floods and rains. The respondents have asked the petitioners to produce record which might be more than 40 years old. If old service record of the petitioners could not be maintained by State of Gujarat for 20/30 years, how do one expect undeveloped States like U.P. and Bihar could maintain such records.”
