ORAL JUDGMENT

Date : 08-10-2024 Heard Learned Counsel for the petitioners and Learned Counsel for the Life Insurance Corporation of India.

2. The present writ petition has been filed for quashing of the order dated 17.02.2020 issued by the Sr. Divisional Manager, D.O.-II, Patna by which the Branch Manager was directed to remove all the daily wagers engaged in the offices and who are getting wages in their own name or through N.E.F.T should be stopped forthwith and they should be brought under outsourced contractor (contained in Annexure -2). Further prayer has been made for a direction to the respondent authorities to regularize the services of the petitioners who have worked as Class IV staffs in daily wager more than 10 years.

3. Learned Counsel for the petitioners submits that Interlocutory Application No. 1 of 2020 has been filed for grant of stay of the operation of the order dated 17.02.2020 ( Annexure -2 to the writ petition) during pendency of the writ petition. He further submits that the said Interlocutory Application was allowed in favour of the petitioners vide order dated 10.03.2022. Learned Counsel further submits that the petitioners were working as Class-IV post in off