ORDER

1. Delay condoned and leave granted in SLP (C) No. 1493 of 2002.

2. The Union of India has challenged the impugned judgment of the Division Bench of the High Court of Rajasthan passed on 12-1-2001. The respondents in these appeals were appointed as casual labourers (mazdoors) in the stores maintained by the Army having headquarters at Jodhpur. Initially these respondents were appointed on daily wages for a period of 89 days and on completion of the period they were terminated from service and again they were appointed as casual labourers immediately after their termination and thus they were terminated and reappointed in four spells. Originally their salary was fixed at Rs 750 per month plus allowances and thereafter it was raised to Rs 35 per day and later to Rs 40 per day. When their services were first terminated on 11-1-1995, they challenged the same before the Central Administrative Tribunal at Jodhpur. The respondents contended that they would have completed the requisite 240 days but for the intermittent termination of their services and therefore their termination was violative of Sections 25-F and 25-G of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947. The Central Administrative