JUDGMENT :

(Prayer: Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, praying to issue a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus, calling for the proceedings of the respondent in Na.Ka.No.14484/NA-2/2010 dated 11.02.2014 and to quash the same insofar it denies regularisation of service to the petitioner and consequently direct the respondent to regularize the service of the petitioner on par with the batch mates who were regularized vide proceedings of the respondent in No.51239/A2/93 dated 22.09.1993 with all attendant and consequential benefits.)

1. This Writ Petition is heard through Video Conferencing on 27.07.2021.

2. The petitioner’s claim for regularization of his service as a Pump Operator with the respondent, was rejected through the impugned order dated 11.02.2014, by placing reliance on G.O.Ms.No.22, Personnel and Administrative Reforms (F), Department, dated 28.02.2006 and G.O.Ms.No.74, Personnel and Administrative Reforms (F), Department, dated 27.06.2013. The claim of the petitioner for regularization is that after he was terminated from his service on 27.04.1989, the learned I Additional Labour Court, Chennai in its award dated 22.10.1996, had set aside the or