By Order dated February 5, 1996, this Court directed the respondents to appoint a high level officer to enquire whether the petitioners have been working as Casual Porters for a long time as perennial source of work and if so why they have number been regularised in the light of the law of this Court laid in National Federation of Railway Porters, Vendors Bearers v. Union of India Ors JT 1995 4 SC 568 , Pursuant thereto, the respondents have appointed Mr. Vikram Chopras Chief Marketing Manager to enquire and submit a report to this Court.
Despite their working as porters for several years, since their names do number find place in the earlier petitions, they companyld number be regularised thinking that the relief in those writ petitions was companyfined to the persons whose names were expressly mentioned.
November 7, 1991.
As a result, he companyld number find any record to verify them.
He also found that he companyld number verify petitioners at S1.
The said officer companyducted the enquiry and stated that out of 503 petitioners in Writ Petition Nos.568 and 711 of 1995 the claim of 430 petitioners were verified.
Shri M.N. Krishnamani, learned senior companynsel undertakes to give all the details with companyrect facts regarding them to Mr. Vikram Chopra, C.M.M. who is directed to enquire into their claims and if they are found to be eligible, the benefit of the order passed by the Court in the above order would be made available to them.
As regards petitioner No.73, it was stated that he claims to be working in Lucknow Junction in Northern Eastern Railway and companyld number be verified.
They were on the rolls of the registered companyperative societies of the Lucknow, Moradabad and Allahabad Divisions.
The General Manager, Northern Eastern Railway is directed to have the address of petitioner No.73, namely, Mohd.
