ORDER :

1. The present writ petitions have been filed with the prayer for regularization of services of the petitioners on the post of Stenographer.

2. The brief facts of the cases are that the petitioners were initially appointed in the year 2003 as Stenographer on contractual basis through a placement agency. They continued to work till the year 2013 when they apprehended that their services would now be terminated by the State department. At that stage, certain petitions were preferred before this Court and the lead case Mukesh Kumar Khatik vs. State of Rajasthan & Ors. (S.B. Civil Writ Petition No.5049/2014) was decided on 01.09.2014. Mukesh Kumar Khatik’s petition was allowed with the following directions:

“In view of the above, the instant petition is allowed with the following directions:

i. the petitioner may be permitted to work on the post in question till regular selected candidates made available for the post in question as per the decision taken by the Government;

ii. no retired person shall be engaged on these regular sanctioned posts;

iii. the stay is operated in this case, therefore, the petitioner may be permitted to work on the post in question till regularly sele