JUDGMENT :

A.P. Sahi, J.

(Prayer: Appeal under Clause 15 of the Letters Patent against the order dated 18.6.2019 passed by the learned Single Judge in W.P.No.17572 of 2018.)

1. This intra-court appeal is directed against the judgment dated 18.6.2019 of a learned Single Judge in respect of the claim of absorption of the respondent/writ petitioner as a Lecturer in Computer Science in the Polytechnic College that was earlier run by Dharmapuri District Co-operative Sugar Mills Private Limited and has now been taken over by the Government.

2. A dispute arose after the Polytechnic College was taken over and the staff of the erstwhile Polytechnic came to be absorbed in terms of G.O.(Ms) No.26, Higher Education (B2) Department, dated 30.1.2018. A copy of the teaching staff details, as relied on by the respondent/writ petitioner, indicates that the respondent/writ petitioner claimed himself to be a Lecturer in Computer Science and Engineering in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

3. The contention, however, is that the respondent/writ petitioner had been working upon being engaged and continued for almost 14 years, according to the respondent/writ petitioner, in that capacity,