JUDGMENT

B.R. Sarangi, J. - Rajib Lochan Mahanta, who was working as a Group-D employee in Utkal University, Khurda, has filed this writ petition seeking direction to the opposite parties to remove the discrimination and regularize him in the Group-D post available in the establishment of opposite party-University and place him in the gradation list meant for Class-IV posts for consequential services and financial benefits as due and admissible to him at par with similarly situated persons, whose services have already been regularized.

2. The factual matrix of the case, in hand, is that in Dhrubananda Mishra and others vs. ViceChancellor, Utkal University,1994 77 CutLT 70, nine petitioners had approached this Court seeking two directions from this Court- the first was relating to regularization of service and the second was to pay them equal to that of their counterparts in regular service. The Division Bench of this Court held that regularization has been accepted as a part and parcel of condition of service and specifically for those, who had completed five years of continuous