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1. The petitioner herein is one of those 130 employees, working in different offices of the respondent-Airport Authority of India all over India, whose services were terminated, inter alia, on the ground that all these persons were appointed on ad hoc basis without any advertisement or calling candidates from Employment Exchange or following recruitment rules, which are required for any public appointment. Number of writ petitions came to be filed by all such employees challenging their termination on the plea that their appointments were later regularized after qualifying typing test or other tests and they were treated as regular employees. These writ petitions were heard together by a Division Bench of this Court. During the course of hearing, certain suggestions were mooted to resolve the problem as large number of persons were involved. After long deliberations spread over nearly three to four months, the parties were able to find an amicable solution of the problem and the Division Bench was able to dispose of the writ petitions on agreed terms with the following directions: