IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARANCHAL AT NAINITAL Civil Writ Petition No. 888 of 2006 (S/S) 1. Ramesh Kumar Tiwari S/o Sri Gangeshwar Tiwari 2. Chandra Mohan Chankanyal S/o Sri B.B. Chankanyal 3. Santosh Kumar Durgapal S/o Girish Chandra Durgapal 4. Santosh Kumar S/o Sri J.R. Arya 5. Ajay Prakash Narain Srivastava S/o B.P.N. Srivastava 6. Pawan Durgapal S/o Sri Girish Chandra Durgapal 7. Virendra Kumar S/o Sri Ram Kishan 8. Mukesh KUmar S/o Sri Lalita Prasad 9. Kamla Prasad Yadav ………….. Petitioners Versus 1. State of Uttaranchal. through the Secretary Pey Jal, Govt. of Uttaranchal, Secretariat, Uttaranchal. 2. Chief General Manager Uttaranchal Jal Sansthan B-Block, Nehru Colony, Dehradun. 3. General Manager (Kumaon) Uttaranchal Jal Sansthan (Kumaon) At Nainital. ………….. Respondents. None for the petitioners. Mr. Rakesh Thapliyal, learned counsel for respondent No. 2. Hon’ble Prafulla C. Pant, J None present for the petitioners. Learned counsel for respondent No. 2 is present. 2. By means of this petition, the petitioners, who are Junior Engineers, on daily wages working with Uttaranchal Jal Sansthan, have sought their regularisation in service. 3. In view of the principle of law laid down in Secretary State of Karnataka Vs. Uma Devi, reported in (2006) 4 Supreme Court Cases, Pg. 01, that daily wage workers and the persons employed without undergoing regular selection process under the rules, should not be permitted to be absorbed or regularized in the service, against the Constitutional scheme of public employment, this Court is not inclined to issue direction to regularise services of the petitioners. 4. The writ petition is dismissed. Interim order, if any, stands vacated. (All pending applications in this Petition also stand disposed of). (Prafulla C. Pant, J.) Dt.: December 01, 2006 H. Negi