JUDGMENT :

MOKSHA KHAJURIA KAZMI, J.

1. The sword of Damocles Hangs by a thread right over one’s head, ready to drop and rip one’s head right off. It means living one’s life under a constant fear or threat, which you always know about, but you only have a choice to live with it with the belief that the danger will never materialize.

2. This Intra Court Appeal is directed against the Judgment dated 06.05.2015, for short impugned Judgment, passed by the writ Court in a writ petition, SWP No. 1874/2012, seeking setting aside of the same on the grounds taken in the memo of appeal.

3. Before the grounds of challenge, put-forth by the appellants, are set out, the Court desires to record the events, that led to the filing of the instant Letters Patent Appeal, in the first instance.

Factual background

4. The appellants are stated to have been engaged as Lecturers/Demonstrators in various branches of the education department on academic arrangement basis commencing 1994. The details of the engagement of appellants are summarized in the tabulated form below: