1. By Ext. P-4 Circular No. 45772/SDI/83/GAD dated 19th January, 1984, the Government directed the Heads of Departments and appointing authorities not to relieve, until further orders, those physically handicapped persons who had been appointed in government service under R.9(a) (i) of the General Rules and who had to their credit one year of total government service (including broken periods) as on 5-1-1984 in one or more categories of posts in the same or different departments. They were also directed to re-appoint, in the existing vacancies or by creating supernumerary posts, subject to the conditions laid down in Para.2 of G. O. (P) No. 25/82/FAD dated 27-1-1982 those physically handicapped persons coining under the category referred to above, if they had already been relieved from service.

2. The appellant-petitioner being a handicapped person who had not bad to his credit one year of total government service (including broken periods) as on 5-1-1984 filed the writ petition contending inter alia that Ext. P4 circular was arbitrary, discriminatory and unreasonable. The writ petition having been dismissed, this appeal has been preferred.

3. Admittedly, the appellant-pe