ORDER :

1. This petition is filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India for the following relief:

“to declare the notification Roc. No. E10/15204/2010 dated 18.1.2011 of Respondent No. 2 as illegal and quash the impugned notification and consequently to issue a Writ in the nature of Mandamus or any other Writ order or direction directing the Respondents to regularize the services of the petitioners as Programme Assistants in dharma Prachara Parishad of T.T. Devasthanam on the basis of their appointments under proceedings No. DP1/189/DPP/2004, dated 20.6.2005 and pass such other order or orders......”

2. Brief facts of the case are that the petitioners No. 1 to 3 are working as Programme Assistants in Hindu Dharma Prachara Parishad, a separate Unit of Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanam and they were appointed in the year 2005. It is submitted that the Executive Officer, TTD notified on 2.2.2005 for filling up of 25 posts of Programme Assistants in Dharma Prachara Parishad, Tirupati on Contract basis. They were eligible to be appointed for the said post as per the interviews were conducted on 15, 16 and 17th May 2005. The petitioners were selected and appointed on the basis of the