JUDGMENT

VARADARAJAN, J. :— C. M. P. No. 3068 of 1984 is by the first respondent in Writ Petition No. 1194 of 1979 (Municipal Corporation of Delhi) for a direction that having regard to changed circumstance the Corporation need not fill in the gaps in the seniority list of 1978-79 relating to Assistant Engineers by direct recruitment. C.M.P. No. 3069 of 1984 is by the petitioners in the same writ petition for taking proceedings against respondents 1 and 2 in the writ petition for contempt of this Courts order dated 13-7-1983 made in the writ petition and for directing those two respondents to forthwith implement that order and fill up the available 32 posts of Assistant Engineers from amongst the petitioners "who were qualified and eligible according to the recuitment rules" and to restrain those respondents from filling up the posts in the direct recruitment quota from amongst diploma holders on current duty charge or on ad hoc basis or in any other manner.

2. By our order dated 13-7-1983 (reported in AIR 1983 SC 881) we allowed prayers Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 5 in the writ petition as indicated in our judgment with costs and dismissed the writ petition in other respects. Prayer No. 1 in