CM No. 19916/2016 (for restoration) and CM No. 19917/2016 (for condonation of delay of 1306 days in filing the restoration application) Though there is a huge delay of 1306 days in filing these applications for restoration and condonation of delay, and though there is no ground for restoration, but since I have heard arguments on merits, these applications are allowed and the writ petition is restored to its original number.

The applications stand disposed of.

W.P.(C) No. 1742/2010

1. By this writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, petitioners seek the relief of their being regularized in the services of Inter University Accelerator Centre, originally called Nuclear Science Centre. Petitioners claim that they were appointed as Receptionists in the Guest House-cum-Hostel of Nuclear Science Centre.

2. A reading of the writ petition shows that petitioners were never the employees of Nuclear Science Centre but were employees of contractors to whom jobs were outsourced by the Nuclear Science Centre. This becomes clear and is found to be admitted by the petitioners themselves from paras 3.2 and 3.3 of the writ petition and which paras read as under:-

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