ORDER :

1. Heard.

2. Leave granted.

3. This appeal takes exception to the judgment dated 5th April, 2018 passed by learned Division Bench of the High Court of Gujarat, dismissing the Special Civil Application No. 5115 of 2018 preferred by the appellant and affirming the order dated 29th June, 2016 passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal, Ahmedabad (hereinafter referred to as the ‘CAT’), rejecting the Original Application No. 50 of 2012 preferred by the appellant with a prayer that the respondents be directed to regularise her services in the Group ‘D’ post.

4. As per admitted facts obtaining from record, the appellant was engaged as a ‘water woman’ in the office of respondent No. 3-Superintendent of Post Offices, Kutch Division, Bhuj, in February, 1986. Another lady namely, Smt. K.M. Vaghela joined services in the same office as a ‘Safai Karamchari’ in the year 1991. Indisputably, the appellant as well as Smt. Vaghela were both performing duties as contingency workers. Having continuously served in the Posts and Telegraphs Department for more than sixteen years, the appellant submitted a representation dated 27th January, 2003 to the concerned authorities, requesting to consider