(1.) THE claim of the petitioner is for regularisation on a Class -III post after being regularised on a Class -IV post. Learned counsel for the petitioner has vehemently argued that the Superintending Engineer of the department has already recommended the case of the petitioner for regularisation on a Class -III post. The learned counsel also relies on a judgment of the Division Bench of this Court in CWP 17987 of 1997 decided on 11.3.1998 in support of his submissions.
(2.) WE have considered the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner. We are of the considered opinion that the judgment rendered by the Division Bench in CWP 17987 of 1997 has been given in the peculiar facts and circumstances of that case. This is the view expressed by the Supreme Court also. When the mailer was carried to the Supreme Court by way of SLP by the State of Haryana, the Supreme Court had clearly observed : -