JUDGMENT :

SANJAY KUMAR MEDHI, J.

1. By means of this petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the following prayers have been prayed for:

“In the premises aforesaid, it is respectively prayed that Your Lordships would graciously be pleased to admit this petition, call for the records, issue a Rule calling upon the respondents to show causes as to why a writ of Certiorari and/or Mandamus and/or any other appropriate writ, order or direction should not be granted and upon cause or causes being shown be pleased to make the Rule absolute in the following terms:

Direct the State respondents to regularize the service of the petitioner and to grant pensionary benefits.

And/or pass any such further or other order/orders as Your Lordship may deem fit and proper in the facts and circumstance.”

2. The facts projected in the writ petition are that the petitioner was appointed as Semi-scale Labour in the establishment of the Executive Engineer, Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) in the year 1995. He was upgraded as Work-charged Khalasi on 05.03.2021 with a scale of pay. The petitioner has retired from service on attaining the age of superannuation on 30.06.2022. The cl