Judgment

KASLIWAL, J.:- Special leave granted.

2. The appellants have filed this appeal against the judgment of the High Court of Judicature at Patna, Ranchi Bench dated 6th September, 1988. The appellants had approached this Court under Art. 32 of the Constitution of India for redressing their grievances but on 27th July, 1986 the Writ Petition was withdrawn with liberty to approach the High Court. The appellants thereupon filed a Writ Petition under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India in the High Court praying for a writ of mandamus directing the Heavy Engineering Corporation Limited (HEC) and its officers to forthwith implement the recommendations of Dr. Binad Kumar and to implement the Circular No. 53/85 dated 14th Oct., 1985 and to prohibit them from giving effect to orders contained in Annexures 6 to 10 and to promote the appellants to the posts of Junior Executives, they, however did, not press their prayer for quashing Annexures 6 to 8 by  which the accountants had been promoted to the posts of Junior Executives.

3. Briefly stated the relevant facts are that in view of certain demands of the employees of the HEC having not been met, they went on strike on 9th Aug