THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NAGESH BHEEMAPAKA WRIT PETITION No.6536 of 2016

ORDER:

The petitioner seeks the regularization of his services as an Attender in the 3^rdrespondent-College, a position he has held since his appointment on 03.07.1991. It is his case that he was initially appointed on 03.07.1991, against an existing aided vacancy, and while he performs the duties of this aided post, his salary has always been paid from the College's Corpus fund rather than the government's grant-in-aid, resulting in payment of meagre wages, paid into his bank account with Corporation Bank opened on 22.12.1991, and he was also enrolled in the Employees' Provident Fund scheme on 08.01.1992. It is stated that a separate writ petition, W.P. No. 11009 of 2014, was filed by him and 10 other employees seeking better wages, which is pending, but distinct from the current plea for regularization.

1.1 The petitioner contends that for 24 years, no communication was ever sent to him by the first or second respondents stating that his services would not be regularized. This prolonged silence, coupled with his continuous service in a sanctioned post, fostered a genuine and legitimate expectation that his posit