IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HON’BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE SRI APARESH KUMAR SINGH AND THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE G.M.MOHIUDDIN WRIT APPEAL No.980 of 2025 DATE: 30.03.2026 Between:

The National Insurance Company Limited Represented by its Chairman-cum-Managing Director, West Bengal and 6 others ….Appellants And N.Balaiah ….Respondent

JUDGMENT

Heard Sri D.Rama Krishna Reddy, learned counsel for the appellants and Sri G.Allabakash, learned counsel for the respondent and perused the record.

2. This writ appeal, preferred under Clause 15 of the Letters Patent, assails the order dated 17.12.2024 passed by the learned Single Judge in W.P.No.4986 of 2019. By the said order, the learned Single Judge allowed the writ petition filed by the respondent (writ petitioner) and directed the appellants to regularize the services of the respondent as sub-staff or in any such post carrying the same scale of pay as prevalent in 2003, with all attendant benefits.

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3. As per the respondent, in the year 2003, the appellants issued a newspaper notification inviting applications for the posts of Caretaker and Helpers, pursuant to which the respondent participat