( 1 ) HEARD the learned counsel for the appellants.

( 2 ) THE learned counsel representing the respondents who has appeared at this stage has also been heard.

( 3 ) PERUSED the record.

( 4 ) THE facts in brief shorn of details and necessary for the disposal of this Special Appeal lie in a narrow compass.

( 5 ) THE Writ Petition No. 52755 of 2002 giving rise to this appeal had been filed by the present appellants praying for the quashing of the order dated 31. 10. 2002 passed by the District Judge, chandauli-the appointing authority contemplated under Rule 15 of the U. P. Subordinate Civil courts Ministerial Establishment Rules, 1947 as amended dispensing with the services of all the ad hoc appointees in the ministerial cadre w. e. f. 1. 11. 2002.

( 6 ) THE appellants had also prayed for a direction requiring the respondents which included the district Judge, Chandauli, to regularise their services on the post of Clerks and Stenographers and restraining them from terminating their services.

( 7 ) IN their writ petition, the appellant Nos. 1 to 12 had asserted that except Manoj Kumar Gupta and Rajendra Kumar Srivastava-the petitioner Nos. 13 and 14, the remaining