(1.) Two petitioners namely, Bhagwan Din and Dharm Raj Singh, have filed this writ petition under Article 226 of Constitution of India challenging recruitment sought to be made by respondents on the posts of Driver. They have also sought a mandamus commanding respondents to consider petitioners for regularization on the posts of Driver.
(2.) During pendency of this writ petition, petitioners have got writ petition amended by inserting two more prayers and, therefore, all prayers made by petitioners in the writ petition are reproduced as under:
(3.) Facts in brief giving rise to present writ petition are that District Kaushambi was newly created as a Revenue District vide Government Order dated 04.04.1997. For the New District, vide Government order dated 11.06.1997 posts of District Magistrate was created. The aforesaid Government Order also created attached posts with the Office of District Magistrate temporarily upto 28.02.1998. It included two posts of Drivers in the pay scale of Rs. 950-1500/-. It also permitted to purchase two Ambassador Cars besides other vehicles. Petitioner-1 was required to work as Driver with effect from 05.09.1997 on a fixed pay of Rs. 1200/- per month. Petitioner-2 was already working as Driver with Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Manjhanpur in District Allahabad with effect from 02.08.1995. After creation of new District he was attached and appointed to work as Driver to run second Ambassador Car purchased for District Kaushambi.