Hon’ble B. Amit Sthalekar, J.—This writ petition has been filed by the petitioners challenging the order dated 8.8.2007 by which the claim of the petitioners for regularisation in service has been rejected.

According to the petitioners, the petitioner No. 1 was appointed in the Forest Department in the year 1989, i.e. on 1.2.1989 on the post of Cattle Guard as a daily wager. The petitioner No. 2 was appointed in the year 1987 on the same post as a daily wager.

2. The case of the petitioners is that they have working continuously up to the commencement of U.P. Group ‘D’ Regularisation of Daily Wager Rules, 2001 (hereinafter referred to as the Rules, 2001).

3. Reliance has been placed on Rule 4 (1) of the Rules, 2001 in order to seek regularisation. It is also claimed that the petitioners had worked upto the year 2003. From the chart, filed as Annexure-1 to the writ petition, it is noticed that the petitioner No. 1 had worked for various periods, namely, 1.2.1989 to 30.1.1992, 1.2.1989 to 1.1.1994 and 1.4.1994 to 30.5.1998. The next copy which has been filed at page 21 of the writ petition shows that he had worked from February, 1989 to January, 1994. Then again a copy of wor