( 1 ) THE petitioners who are employed as Kalasies in the department of Carriage and Wagon at Kakinada port, East Godavari District, in the vijayawada division of South Central railway have filed this writ petition under article 226 of the Constitution of India for the issue of a writ of mandamus directing the respondents not to enforce the orders of retrenchment passed against the petitioners. The respondents who are impleaded are: (i) Divisional Superintendent, South-Central Railway, vijayawada, (2) Divisional Machanical engineer, South Central Railway, vijayawada, (3) Train Examiner-in- charge, Kakinada Port, and (4) Divisional personnel Officer, South Central Railway, Vijayawada.

( 2 ) THE case of the petitioners is that they were all appointed as substitutes in the month of September, 1970 and that they had completed more than six months of service as substitutes and had acquired the status of temporary railway employees. While so they were served with notice of termination on 8th July, 1971, by the third respondent which is in the following terms: "your services will not be required with effect from 10th July, 1971, due to filling up of the posts by regular men from the appro

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