SUDHIR AGARWAL, J.

Heard Sri B. N. Singh for the petitioners and learned Standing Counsel for the respondents.

2. The petitioners who were appointed as Tubewell operators and were regularised in accordance with the provisions of Regularisation of Part Time Tube well Operators on the post of Tubewell Operators Regularisation Rules, 1996 (hereinafter referred to as "1996 Rules") are claiming that they should be given seniority and all other benefits from the date of their initial appointment. Reliance is placed by Sri B. N. Singh, learned counsel for the petitioners on a judgment dated 23. 9. 2008 of a learned Single Judge of this Court in writ petition no 5971 (S/s) of 2008, Raj Kumar Pandey Vs. State of U. P. and others which reads as under:

"heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned Standing Counsel.

The petitioners claim that they are entitled for getting benefit from the date of their initial appointment and petitioners in this regard relied on the judgment rendered by this Court in the case of S. L. Prasad and others Vs. State of U. P. and others, and against the said judgment, SLP has also been preferred before Honble Apex Court and the same has been dismissed by th

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