JUDGMENT : 

HARPREET SINGH BRAR, J.

1. The present writ petition has been filed under Article 226/227 of the Constitution of India with a prayer for issuance of an appropriate writ or order in the nature of mandamus directing the respondents to consider and to regularize the services of petitioners in view of the resolution bearing 139/4 dated 25.06.2018 (Annexure P-3) passed by respondent No.4- Municipal Corporation, Rajpura as the resolution has been passed considering the petitioners on fulfilling the criteria for regularization. Further prayed for regularizing the services of petitioners w.e.f. the date of their initial joining with the Municipal Corporation along with all consequential benefits.

CONTENTIONS

2. Learned counsel for the petitioners, inter alia, contends that the petitioners were initially appointed in the year 1996 as Peon on contract basis but their services had been terminated in the year 2003. Vide award dated 11.12.2013, learned Industrial Tribunal cum Labour Court, Patiala directed the respondents to reinstate petitioner No.1 with continuity in service but without back wages. Thereafter, contract of the petitioners was extended from time to time. Petitioners No.