(1.) This special appeal has been filed against the impugned judgment of the learned single Judge dated 26.3.2004.
(2.) We have heard learned counsel for the parties and have carefully perused the impugned judgment.
(3.) The petitioners were appointed as assistant clerks in Industrial Training Institute, Bulandshahr on 7.12.1988 on leave vacancy on a purely stop gap arrangement. Their services were dispensed with on 3.2.1990 against which they filed a writ petition in this Court and obtained an interim order. On the strength of that interim order, they continued in service for about 15 years.