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(ii) Issue any other and further writ, order or direction as this Hon'ble Court may deem fit and proper in the facts and circumstances of the case.

2. Briefly stated facts of the case are that petitioners were appointed as Chowkidar on daily wages (Class IV post) in the year 1981 and 1990 respectively. Their services were orally terminated in the year 1995. Against the said order of termination, petitioners preferred Civil Misc Writ Petition No. 22522 of 1995, which was finally disposed off vide order dated 29.4.1999 with the direction to the respondents to regularise the services of the petitioners on Class IV post. Petitioners accordingly, made their representation for their regularisation and also for payment of balance salary. It is further alleged that the respondents against the order dated 29.4.1999 preferred Special Leave to Appeal (civil) No. 336 of 2000, which was dismissed as withdrawn vide order dated 31.1.2000. Thereafter, respondents is said to have preferred Special Appeal against the judgement and order dated 29.4.1999, which was also dismissed vide order dated 2.4.2003. Thereafter, an order for regularisation of the services of the petitioners was passed by the respondents on 2.9.2003. After regularisation of their services, petitioners demanded salary as well as seniority since 1981 to 1990 respectively. It is further submitted that the petitioner no. 1 has been superannuated from service on 30.4.2017 and petitioner no. 2 has died during pendency of the writ petition. Hence this writ petition.

16. Having considered the facts and circumstances of the case, and also keeping in view the mandate of the judgements in preceding paragraphs, I am of the considered opinion that the petitioners are entitled to get all the pensionary benefits after taking into the consideration the services rendered by them as daily wagers, prior to their regularisation, as also the seniority from the date of engagements as daily wagers; but they shall not be entitled for the arrears of balance from the date of their appointments on daily wage posts since they have already been paid wages of such period.

17. In the circumstances, the writ petition is finally disposed off with the direction to the respondents to make pensionary benefits to the petitioners after taking into the consideration the services rendered by the petitioners as daily wagers, prior to regularisation, in the light of the judgements of Prem Singh (Supra) and and shall also count the services rendered by the petitioners as daily wagers for the purpose of seniority. Respondents are further directed to ensure the payments of arrears of pension, if any, within three months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this judgment.