Service Commission. This is the specific stand taken in the reply filed on behalf of the State Government. Letters dated 31.5.2000 and 22.3.2001, Annexures R2 and R3 respectively, appended along with the reply filed on behalf of respondent No.1 would clearly reveal that the combined merit list of all categories of candidates whose names were recommended by the Public Service Commission on the basis of 1984 examination and subsequent examinations were still awaited from the Public Service Commission. Still further, in terms of letter dated 22.3.2001, Annexure R3, addressed to the Secretary, Punjab Public Service Commission, it was clearly recited that in pursuance to the law laid down by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in Ajit Singh Januja and Ajit Singh-II, a combined merit list of PCS Officers recruited to the PCS (Executive Branch) from 1989 to 1999 be sent by the Commission. It is in response thereto that vide letter dated 4.7.2001, Annexure R1, the combined merit list of all categories prepared on the basis of merit of PCS (Executive Branch) and other Allied Services Examination for the years 1987,1988,1989,1990 and 1998 were sent by the Punjab Public Service Commission to the State Government. A perusal thereof would reveal that the criteria adopted by the Commission for the preparation of the combined merit list including the one pertaining to the recruitment process of the year 1990 was also disclosed inasmuch as it was stated that such combined merit list had been prepared by the Commission on the basis of marks secured in the papers by the candidates of different categories in which they appeared as per Rules and by working out the
