Kailash Gambhir, J.

1. Rule. The matter is taken up for final hearing.

2. The grievance of the petitioner as set out in the present petition is that the petitioner was appointed as a Research Assistant in Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Department of Communication, Government of India/respondent No. 2 in September 1995 and worked therein up to January 1998. The petitioner has contended that the petitioner fulfilled the minimum qualification for the said post as laid down in the advertisement. The petitioner requested the respondent No. 2 to regularise his services on the post of Research Assistant as he had already completed 240 days of continuous service. The petitioner had also approached the respondent Nos. 3, i.e., National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes for the redressal of his grievance. The petitioner has further contended that after termination of his service on 19.06.1998 he had been persuading the respondents for his regular appointment on the said post of Research Assistant and when he failed in all his efforts, then, he approached the Delhi High Court Legal Services Committee for assistance and thereafter in the year 2005 preferred