1. In the first writ petition (W.P.No.13001 of 2008), the petitioner is a government employees association, by name Tamilnadu Arasu Paniyalar Sangam, represented by its President. The prayer in the writ petition is for a direction to respondents 1 to 7 to absorb the services of the outsourced employees in time scales of pay and other attendant benefits.

1.2. When the writ petition came up on 27.5.2008, this Court, after noting that in similar circumstances the Madurai Bench had given a direction to maintain status-quo and also in view of the fact that the members of the petitioner/association are liable to be terminated at any time, granted an order of status-quo. The writ petition was subsequently admitted on 15.7.2008. Pending the writ petition, interim injunction was granted until further orders and liberty was also given to the respondents to file a vacate stay petition. In the petition for grant of interim injunction restraining the respondents from making any fresh appointment, only notice was ordered and subsequently, on a vacate stay petition being filed, this Court rejected the vacate stay petition and the petition to restrain the respondents from making fresh ap