B.P. Dharmadhikari, J.

By these petitions under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, petitioners seek declaration that condition in their appointment order or restricting tenure of their appointments be declared as bad. They seek a direction to regularise their services from the date of their appointment, and to extend them pay-scales as mentioned in Government Resolutions dated 24.01.2007, 22.01.2010 and 13.03.2013. Prayers have been later on amended to seek regularisation in services of Zilla Parishad and for quashing circular dated 14.09.2015 by which the respondents wanted to proceed with the recruitment. This Court has on 24.04.2014, after noticing interim orders passed at Aurangabad Bench in Writ Petition No.4465/2014, directed the respondents not to take any steps to their prejudice and said interim orders continue to operate even today. On 14.10.2015, this Court also ordered that if any steps to fill in vacancies in respective respondent no. 5 Zilla Parishads were initiated, petitioners would be entitled to apply for consideration of their claim for regularization.

2. It appears that efforts were being made to dispose of the Writ Petition finally at the stage o