HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.14012 of 2000 ORDER: The relief sought for in this writ petition is to declare the action of the respondents, in taking steps to terminate the services of the petitioner as Lift Operator, and appointing another person in the said post by direct recruitment, as arbitrary and illegal. The petitioner seeks a consequential direction to the respondents to regularize his services from the date of his initial appointment with all consequential benefits. This writ petition was filed on 31.07.2000. In the counter affidavit filed on behalf of the respondents, it is stated that interviews for the posts of watchman and driver were conducted as scheduled on 28.03.2000 and 29.03.2000, and that persons appointed as watchman and driver joined duty in April, 2000; interviews were held for the post of Lift Operators on 13.07.2000; as a result of which four Scheduled Tribe candidates were empanelled for the two posts on 24.07.2000; appointment letters were sent to the selected candidates on 31.07.2000; and they reported for duty on 01.08.2000. The respondents would further state that, consequent upon the post of Lift Operator being filled with the appointment of regularly recruited candidates, the petitioner had to give way and hence his services were terminated with effect from 01.08.2000. As the petitioners’ services were subsequently terminated, on appointment of regular candidates pursuant to a process of selection as contemplated under the statutory rules, and in as much as the Writ Petition was filed prior to the order of termination, the cause in the writ petition does not survive and the writ petition has become infructuous. The Writ Petition is, accordingly, dismissed. However, in the circumstances, without costs. ____________________________ RAMESH RANGANATHAN, J Date: 22.07.2010 MRKR