IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No. 5969 of 2011 Date of decision: 28.07.2011 Suraj Mal and others ...Petitioners Versus State of Haryana and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RANJIT SINGH Present: Mr. Karan Singh, Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr. Sunil Nehra, DAG, Haryana for the State. RANJIT SINGH J. The petitioners have approached this Court with a grievance that they being contractual employees are replaced by other similar arrangement by appointing person on contract. Notice was issued and reply has been filed. The State has taken a stand that the petitioners were not employed directly by the Department but were employees of contractor and had worked through this outsourcing arrangement. The counsel for the petitioner disputes this fact but has not been able to show either his appointment letter or any other document, which will show anything contrary to the same. Once the petitioners are not the employees of the respondents, they cannot make any grievance against the respondents. Otherwise also contractual employees would have hardly any right to claim to continue in service. If the contract is wrongly terminated, they can have a remedy to seek Civil Writ Petition No. 5969 of 2011 -2- damages. No case for interference, therefore, is made out. Dismissed. July 28, 2011 (RANJIT SINGH) rts JUDGE