HIGH COURT OF UTTARANCHAL AT- NAINITAL. Writ Petition No. 5296(S/S)2001 (Old no. 12899 of 2000) Avadhesh Kumar Sharma, S/o Sri Khem Chandra Sharma, R/o Wing no. 3/16/5, Prem Nagar, District Dehradun. ….Petitioner. Vs. 1. Zila Prabhandhak, U.P. Bhutpurva Sainik Kalyan Nigam Ltd. Kutchery Compund, Dehradun, 2. Executive Engineer, U.P. State Electricity Board (North), 18 E.C. Road, Dehradun, 3. UP-Khand Adhikari, Nagriya Vidhut Vitran Upkhand (Uttar) Pratham, Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidhut Parishad, 75, Rajpur Road, Dehradun. …Respondents. Sri Rajendra Dobhal, learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri Vikas Pandey, learned counsel for respondent no.1. Hon’ble M.M. Ghildiyal, J.: Heard Sri Rajendra Dobhal, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Vikas Pandey, learned counsel for respondent no. 1 By means of this writ petition, the petitioner has prayed to issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of certiorari for quashing of the impugned order dates 30.09.1999, orally passed by the respondent no. 3 terminating the services of the petitioner from the post of Meter-Reader. Submission of the petitioner is that on 19.03.1999 the respondent no.1 entered into an agreement with respondent no. 2 to the effect that the respondent no.1 will provide Meter- Readers to the Department of respondent no. 2. It appears that U.P. Bhutpurva Sainik Kalyan Nigam Ltd. i.e. the respondent no.1 recommended the name of the petitioner for Meter-Reader to the Department of U.P. State Electricity Board i.e. the respondent no. 2. There was contract between U.P. Bhutpura Sainik Kalyan Nigam Ltd. and the Department of U.P. State Electricity Board which the services of the petitioner were based. But after the contract was over, the petitioner cannot claim for his continuation as Meter- Reader with the establishment. The writ petition is devoid of merits and is liable to be dismissed. The writ petition is dismissed. No order as to costs. (M.M. Ghildiyal, J.) August 10, 2005: NCM: