HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.4932 of 2000 ORDER: Heard Sri A.V.Sesha Sai, Learned Counsel for the petitioners and Sri G.Jagadishwar, learned Standing Counsel for the T.T.D. Petitioners, seven in number, question the proceedings of the 2nd respondent dated 14.3.2000 as arbitrary and illegal. Facts, in brief, are that petitioners were hitherto appointed to work in the school for the deaf at Bhimavaram in West Godavari District. The 2nd respondent, by memo dated 9.11.1992 had permitted the Headmaster of the said school to engage the services of staff on daily wage basis in the hostels attached to the schools. Subsequently, by proceedings dated 25.6.1993, the Trust Board decided to pay wages to the petitioners on the basis of the minimum wage notified by the District Collector. The petitioners herein filed W.P.No.13946 of 1993 seeking absorption of their services into the T.T.D, and to regularize their services with retrospective effect from 14.11.1992 with all consequential benefits by declaring the action of the respondents, in not regularizing their services and not authorizing them the scale of pay attached to the posts held by them, as arbitrary and illegal. A Division Bench of this Court by order in W.P.No.13946 of 1999 dated 11.11.1999 held as under: “In our view, having heard both the learned counsel on the petitioners, the petitioners have not made out any case to allow this writ petition except making us to observe that as and when vacancies arise and if the petitioners seek fresh appointment, their cases shall be considered, if they are otherwise eligible, on humanitarian grounds giving weightage to the service already rendered by them. It is also made clear that continuation of the petitioners on the interim direction of this court does not confer any right on them to seek regularization of their service in the posts in which they are working. With the above observations, the writ petition is dismissed.” The said order of the Division Bench has attained finality and is therefore binding inter parties i.e., on both the petitioners herein and respondent – T.T.D. Subsequently, vide proceedings dated 14.3.2000, the 2nd respondent terminated the services of the petitioners and requested the Principal, S.V. School for the deaf, Bhimavaram to take necessary action and relieve them from the hostels. Consequently proceedings dated 14.3.2000 was issued permitting the school to utilize the services of required persons, through a registered contractor, on contract basis duly following the procedure in vogue. It is this order dated 14.3.2000 which is under challenge in this writ petition as arbitrary and illegal. Pursuant to the order dated 14.3.2000, the petitioners were relieved from service. Though they sought an interim order in this Writ Petition for their continuance, the said W.P.M.P. was dismissed. The writ appeal preferred thereagainst was also dismissed and, as a result, the petitioners have not been in service, of the School for the deaf, for the past decade. As noted hereinabove the petitioners had earlier sought regularization of their services, and the Division Bench of this Court had merely observed that, as and when vacancies arise and, if the petitioners seek fresh appointment, their cases shall be considered, if they are otherwise eligible, on humanitarian grounds giving weightage to the service already rendered by them. It is not even the petitioners’ case that any fresh appointments have been made except the impugned proceedings dated 14.3.2000. Whether the T.T.D. should appoint employees directly or engage the services of a contractor in this regard are maters of policy which this Court would, normally, not interference with. Suffice to hold that the only direction which the petitioners are entitled, in view of the order of the Division Bench in W.P.No.13946 of 1999 dated 11.11.1999 having attained finality, is that as and when vacancies arise in future, if they seek fresh appointment, their cases shall be considered, if they are otherwise eligible, on humanitarian grounds, giving weightage to the services already rendered by them. The Writ Petition is disposed of accordingly. No costs. __________ 6-8-2010 asp