JUDGMENT :

1. Heard.

2. By means of this appeal the appellant has challenged the judgment dated 05.04.2024 passed in Writ A No.2741 of 2024 which reads as under :-

"1. Heard Sri Vishal Kumar Upadhyay, the learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri Uttam Kumar Srivastava, the learned Standing Counsel appearing on behalf of the State and perused the records.

2. By means of the instant application filed under Section 226 of the Constitution of India, the petitioner has prayed for quashing of an order dated 13.02.2024, whereby the petitioner's request for granting the benefit of regularization with effect from 2003 instead of regularization with effect from the date of order dated 10.09.2010, has been rejected.

3. The petitioner's services on a Group-D post of Mali were regularized along with the services of six other employees by means of an order dated 10.09.2010, with effect from the date of passing of the order.

4. The petitioner and some other persons filed Writ-A No.3068 of 2011 seeking a direction to the opposite parties to regularize services of the petitioners with effect from 2001 when the relevant Regularization Rules were notified. The said writ petition was disposed of by means of