Ramesh Ranganathan, J.

Heard Mr. Rakesh Thapaliyal and Mr. Vipul Sharma, learned counsel for the appellants-respondents, and Mr. Shobhit Saharia, Mr. Parikshit Saini and Mr. Mohd Safdar, learned counsel for the respondents-writ petitioners.

2. These appeals are preferred by the India Institute of Technology, Roorkee against the order passed by the learned Single Judge in WPSS No. 1772 of 2018 and batch dated 29.10.2018. The respondents herein invoked the jurisdiction of this Court questioning the order extending the contract till 30.06.2018, and in recording that they would not be entitled to continue in service thereafter. All the respondents-writ petitioners are dependants of deceased employees of IIT, Roorkee, and had sought compassionate appointment in terms of the 2002 compassionate appointment Policy which was approved by the Board of Governors of the IIT on 29.06.2002. In terms of the said policy, all compassionate appointments were to be made only to entry level posts in Group ‘C’ and Group ‘D’; and the applicants were required to possess the prescribed educational qualifications for recruitment to such posts. All the respondents-writ petitioners herein had sought a