J U D G M E N T

A.K. Jayasankaran Nambiar, J.

The petitioners in W.P.(C).No.29091/20921 are the appellants herein, aggrieved by the judgment dated 13.5.2022 of the learned Single Judge. The brief facts necessary for disposal of the Writ Appeal are as follows:

The appellants are stated to have been engaged as casual labourers for doing sanitation works in the respondent Municipality on various dates from 1.5.2013, 1.5.2017, 8.5.2017 and 21.5.2017 respectively. It would appear that by a communication dated 30.11.2021, they were informed that they need not report for duty from 1.12.2021 onwards. Later, when they came to know that the respondent Municipality was engaging other persons to tend to the sanitation works, they approached this Court through the writ petition aforementioned contending, based on the judgment in Hameshdas K.H. and Others v. The State of Kerala and Others - [2021 (3) ILR (Ker.) 456], that they had a right to be regularised in the services of the respondent Municipality.

2. The learned Single Judge, who considered the matter, found that the appellants were engaged only on a temporary basis and were disengaged with effect from 1.12.2021. The disengagement was apparent