1. Heard on IA No. 1/2007, application for taking additional affidavit on record.
Not opposed.
The application is allowed. The affidavit is taken on record.
Also heard on preliminary objection to the maintainability of the contempt petition and objections to the framing of charges.'

2. The petitioners have filed this contempt petition under Art.215 of the Constitution of India read with S.12 to 15 of the Contempt of Courts Act for initiating contempt proceedings against the respondents for willful violation of the ex parte order dated 19th of October, 2005 passed in W.P. No. 4943/2005.

3. Grounds of the petition are that the petitioners were appointed as daily wagers on the post of peon, chowkidar and clerk in Madhya Pradesh Adivasi and Vitt Vikas Nigam (for short, hereinafter referred to as 'M.P. Nigam') in the year 1995-96. After reorganization of the State of Madhya Pradesh, Vitta and Vikas Nigam was not continued in the State of Chhattisgarh and in its place, Chhattisgarh Rajya Antyavyasayee Sahkari Avam Vikas Nigam Maryadit (C. G. Nigam) was constituted and services of the employees who opted for Chhattisgarh has b