Judgment

Mr. Sandeep Moudgil, J.

The petitioners have filed the present writ petition invoking Article 226 of the Constitution of India with a prayer for issuance of a writ in the nature of certiorari for quashing of the Office Order dated 25.01.2019 (Annexure P-1) whereby respondent No.3 has rejected the claim for regularization of the petitioners. They further seek a direction to the respondents to regularize their services in view of various judicial pronouncements of this Court as well as the Apex Court and also on the principle of ‘equal pay for equal work’.

2. The petitioners are working under respondent No.3 – Municipal Corporation, Faridabad on various posts viz. Beldar, Masson, Electrician Helpers, Tubewell Helpers, Valveman etc. and were appointed as such since the year 1993 to 1995 (as tabulated in para 3 of the writ petition) and as such they have put in around 25 years of service when the writ petition was filed and till that time, the petitioners were drawing a meagre salary of around 5731/- in December, 2015. The petitioners made several representations includi