Tinlianthang Vaiphei, J.

1. In this writ petition, the petitioners are seeking direction from this court to restrain the respondent authorities from promoting the Junior Engineers, who are juniors to them, to the post of Assistant Engineer in the normal cadre without first regularising the services of the petitioners in the normal cadre from ex-cadre posts held by them and to comply with the direction given by this Court in its judgment and order dated 14.8.2008 passed in WP (C) No. 4767 of 2007. Before proceeding further, the facts of the case, as pleaded by the petitioners, may be noticed briefly. The petitioners are three years Diploma holders in Engineering and were appointed as Junior Engineers in the Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) on various dates and posted at various places. Their initial dates of joining in the respective posts held by them are as under:

Sl No.	Date of joining as Junior Engineers
Petitioner No.1.	05.10.1983
Petitioner No.2.	15.02.1982
Petitioner No.3.	02.12.1981
Petitioner No.4	10.12.1981
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