JUDGMENT

Srikrishna, J. — The appellant was initially appointed as a Lower Division Clerk through District Selection Committee on 6.11.1968 in the office of the District Panchayat. He was promoted as Upper Division Clerk (redesignated as Senior Assistant) with effect from 12.10.1970. The services of the appellant in the said category were regularised with effect from the same day. By an order issued on 12.5.1986, under Rule 10(a)(i) of the State and Subordinate Services Rules, the appellant and certain other employees came to be appointed as “Extension Officers (Pts.)” in the Andhra Pradesh Panchayati Raj (Executive Subordinate) Service. The appellant was allotted to Nizamabad District. The said order made it clear that the appointment was “purely temporary” and that it was “...liable to be terminated at any time without assigning reasons and without prior notice....” and that such an appointment “...would not confer on ...(him)...any rights of probation or preferential claims for further appointment”.

2. By an order dated 24.9.1988, the services of the appellant were regularised in the category of Senior Assistant with effect from 12.10.1970. On 12.11.1991, the appellant made a re