v. Union of India Ors.,
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by SAWANT, J. The petitioner applicants are some of the Medical Officers who were recruited by the Railways on ,id hoc basis as Assistant Divisional Medical Officers between 1968 and 1st October, 1984.
C. Bhandare, P.P. Rao, N.N. Goswamy, C.K Sucharita, Ms. Shashi Kiran, Ms. Manjula Gupta, R. Shashi Prabhu, V.K. Verma and Raj Kumar Gupta for P.C. Kapur for the appearing parties.
By an order dated 24th September, 1987 passed in the case of Dr. A.K Jain Ors.
They were appointed as such ad hoc employees by way of a stop gap arrangement pending the regular recruitment to the said posts through the Union Public Service Commission UPSC for short, according to the rules.
It appears that although from time to time the UPSC recruited candidates on regular basis, there remained some vacancies unfilled, either because the doctors recruited were less in number than the number of vacancies since suitable candidates were number available or some of those who were selected did number join the service or between the date of advertisement by the UPSC and that of the empanelling, some more vacancies occurred.
Whatever the reasons, the fact was that even after the UPSC undertook the exercise of recruiting the doctors from time to time, some vacancies always remained unfilled.
The fact, however, remains that the petitioner applicants and others like them companytinued to serve on ad hoc basis since 1968.
Hence they filed writ petitions in this Court for their regularisation in service.
Some of them in fact did so appear and were selected others like the petitioner applicants either failed to be selected or did number care to appear.
1 of 1992.
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Interlocutory Application No.
IN Writ Petition No.
It may be mentioned in this companynection that the ad hoc appointees were always at liberty to appear before the UPSC for their regular recruitment.
The result was that every time the petitioner applicants and others like them were companytinued on ad hoc basis as a stop gap arrangement till the next recruitment by the UPSC.
Under Article 32 of the Constitution of India .
1165 of 1986.
