In the affidavit of Shri Bharat Bhushan, District Judge, Bagpat (as he then was before his elevation to the High Court) and who was the District Judge of Gautam Budh Nagar at the relevant time, it is stated that under the directions of the High Court the then District Judge, Gautam Budh Nagar initiated the selection process for conducting the examination. A Five-Members Committee of the Judges of the Court was appointed and an advertisement was issued for the posts of Clerk, Clerk-cum-Typist and Stenographers. For the post of Stenographers the applicant was required to undergo two tests i.e. the written examination and a test in shorthand. Similarly for the post of Clerk-cum-Typist a candidate was required to appear in two examinations i.e. written examination and typing test. The paper for examination was set up by the District Judge himself. The examination was duly conducted by the then District Judge with examination centres in four Schools. The teaching staff under the supervision of Judicial Officers of the District Gautam Budh Nagar and those, who were requisitioned from Districts Bulandshahr and Ghaziabad with the approval of the High Court, supervised the examination. The papers and other relevant material under sealed cover were handed over to Judicial Officers two hours prior to examination. After the examination was over, the copies were kept under sealed cover by respective Centre Incharge and thereafter handed over to Examination Committee. The District Judge himself got the codes allotted to each and every answer sheet, which was given to the evaluator with the names and roll numbers so struck off, and blackened by the District Judge himself that they may not be deciphered. The identity of examinees might was closely guarded. Even the members of the Selection Committee did not have any knowledge of the codes allotted to the applicants. No one including the Chairman of the Committee was aware of the identity of the examinees. The evaluation of the main written examination was conducted by various Judicial Officers. The answer sheets of the shorthand examination was evaluated by the expert, who was an instructor of ITI Ghaziabad. The answer sheets of type test were evaluated by a team consisting of several Judicial Officers and the merit list was prepared on the basis of qualifying main examination and the marks awarded in the shorthand examination. The stenography test in respect of Stenographer was conducted from amongst the candidates qualified in the main examination of which the merit list was prepared. The decision of the Examination Committee was duly approved by the District Judge. The passage was spoken with a speed of 80 words per minute, which was required by the applicants to be written on taking dictation in shorthand and thereafter to be typed on a paper and thereafter to be evaluated according to the settled norms and guidelines of the State Government, which provide for the method of speaking, punctuation and treatment of mistakes and which provided with 5% mistakes to be ignored. So far as the evaluation of answer sheets of Clerk-cum-Typist examination