B.P.Singh and Nagendra Rai JJ.

1. We have heard the counsel for the parties at length, but we find no merit in this petition. We briefly record our reasons.

2. The petitioners claim to be class III and class IV employees of the J. S. College, Daltongaj, a constituent College of the Ranchi University. In the instant petition, they have claimed their wages for the periods from May, 1988 to August 1989 and again from February, 1991 onwards. They claim that though they were appointed against the posts sanctioned by the University in May, 1988, then the Principal of the College stopped payment of wages to them and this compelled them to taken up the matter with the University, Pursuant to an undestanding reached with the University they again started getting their wages from September, 1989 onwards and continued to receive their wages till January, 1991. Again from February, 1992 they are not being paid their wages though they are working against the posts.

3. A counter-affidavit has been filed an behalf of the respondents in which the claim of the petitioners is denied and it is stated that the petitioners have neither been appointed by the University nor by any competent autho