IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARANCHAL AT NAINITAL Civil Writ Petition No. 372 of 2005 (S/S) Mahesh Pathak S/o Bhawani Dutt Pathak ……………. Petitioner Versus 1. State of Uttaranchal, through its Secretary Civil Secretariat, Dehradun. 2. Managing Director Kumaon Mandal Vikas Nigam Ltd., Oak Part, Nainital, Distt. Nainital 3. The Manager Tanakpur Tourist Rest Center, Tanakpur, District Champawat. …………… Respondents None for the petitioner. Mr. N.P. Sah, Standing Counsel for the State. Mr. Sobhit Saharia, learned counsel for respondent Nos. 2 & 3. Hon’ble Prafulla C. Pant, J. None present for the petitioner. Learned counsel for the respondents are present. 2) By means of this writ petition, the petitioner, who is a temporary employee on a consolidated salary of Rs. 3,100/-, with Kumaon Mandal Vikas Nigam Ltd., has sought his regularization in service. 3) In view of the principle of law laid down in Secretary State of Karnataka Vs. Uma Devi, reported in 2006 A.I.R.S.C.W. Page 1991, 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 issue direction to regularise services of the petitioner. 4) Therefore, the writ petition is dismissed. Interim order dated 07.04.2005, is hereby, vacated. (All pending applications in this Petition also stand disposed of). (Prafulla C. Pant, J.) Dt.: November 17, 2006 H.Negi 2