ORDER

Per: - Rajinder Singh Dogra, Judicial Member The instant Original Application has been filed by the applicants under Section 19 of Administrative Tribunals Act , 1985 making therein the following reliefs: -

“i. to regularize the services of the petitioner retrospectively w.e.f. 2002;

ii. to release all the consequential benefits in his favour.

This Original Application has been filed by the petitioner, praying for regularization of services with effect from July 1995, and payment of consequential service benefits.

2. The petitioner is a permanent resident of the UT of Jammu and Kashmir and a citizen of India. He is, therefore, entitled to the protection of his fundamental, statutory, and legal rights.

3. The petitioner’s father possessed a land measuring 04 Kanals 17 Marlas at Ward No. 6, Nowshera. The land was mutated in the name of the father of petitioner Sh. Mela Ram.

4. The respondents acquired the said land for the purpose of constructing a dug well (water point) for catering to the water needs of the people of Nowshera Town.

5. More than 02 Kanals of land was acquired by the respondents in April/May 1990 with the promise at the time of acquiring the said land that one member