ORDER

The petitioners were appointed as Field Workers in the Filaria Department of the State Government between 1981 and 1985. In the first instance, they had filed W.P. No. 250/92 and the High Court directed the Government to consider their representation and dispose it of by judgment dated January 18, 1993. When they came to this Court, this Court directed the Government to consider their cases in the light of the law laid down by this Court in State of Haryana v. Piara Singh1. Subsequently, since the Government had not taken any steps, the petitioners filed another writ petition. In the meanwhile, the Public Service Commission (PSC) had selected the candidates who were not being appointed. Therefore, the selectees approached the High Court and filed the writ petition. The petitioners also filed the writ petition in the High Court seeking for regularisation. The High Court in the impugned order dated June 24, 1996 in O.P. No. 17422/93 dismissed the batch of writ petitions filed by the petitioners, allowed the writ petitions filed by the selectees and directed the Government to appoint the candidates selected through the PSC. It also directed the Government to send the requisition