HON’BLE MRS. JUSTI CE SUREPALLI NANDA WRI T PETI TI ON No.11958 OF 2021

ORDER:

Heard Sri Srikanth Hariharan, learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner and Sri Veda Vikas Mudiraj V, learned Standing Counsel appearing on behalf of Respondent University.

2. The petitioner approached this Court seeking the prayer as under:

“…to issue a writ, order or direction, more in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the Respondent University in not considering the case of the petitioner for regularization of services in the Respondent University despite 28 years of continuous, uninterrupted service, by issuing Notification No.3/2021 dated 31.03.2021 as wholly illegal, unjust and arbitrary or in the alternative, not considering the case of the petitioner for payment of minimum of Scale-pay (Time scale pay) on Par with Regular Employees, as wholly illegal, unjust and arbitrary and violative of Articles 14, 16 and 21 of the constitution of India and consequently direct the Respondent to absorb/regularize the service of the petitioner or pay minimum of the Pay Scale for the services being rendered by the petitioner and pass such other order…”

3. The case of the petitioner, i