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2. The brief facts of the applicants' case are that in the year 2008, the respondents selected and engaged them to work as Casual Monitors in the Central Monitoring Services (CMS), National Technical Research Organization (NTRO), Aya Nagar, New Delhi. They uninterruptedly worked as casual Monitors from 2008 to September 2013. The respondents stopped assigning any duty to them from 1.10.2013 onwards without issuing any prior notice. Their repeated approaches to the respondents having yielded no response, the applicants filed W.P.(C)No. 787 of 2014 before the Hon'ble High Court of Delhi. The Hon'ble High Court, by its order dated 3.2.2014, dismissed the said writ petition, as withdrawn, with liberty to the applicants to approach this Tribunal. The Hon'ble High Court observed that while considering the claim of the applicants, the Tribunal would keep in mind the principle set forth by the Division Bench of the Hon'ble High Court of Delhi in Govind Singh Rana and Ors, etc. Vs. National Technical Research Organization, W.P. (C) Nos. 2412 & 2413 of 2012, decided on 7.1.2013. Hence, the present O.A. was filed by the applicants seeking the reliefs as aforesaid.

3. In their counter reply, the respondents have stated that the NTRO is a premier apex scientific organization under the National Security Advisor in the Prime Minister's Office, India. The NTRO is a highly specialized technical intelligence agency, and acts as a super-feeder agency for providing information to other agencies on internal and external security matters. CMS merged with Centre for OSINT Production (COP) and rechristened as Centre for Focused OSINT Generation (CFOG) as per the need of the organization. Generally, the organization engages casual assignees on 'as and when required basis'. The applicants were engaged for some days in a month on purely casual basis as per requirement. Initially, the period of engagement was up to 10 days in a month. Subsequently, it was increased up to 15 days in a month. The applicants and others, who were engaged on purely casual basis, were required to fill in claim forms for each month. Condition no.5 of the claim form stipulated that number of bookings would depend on the performance of the assignee, and in case his/her performance/conduct is found unsatisfactory, the booking may be discontinued without any notice. By order dated 23.7.2013(Annexure R/4), the competent authority constituted a Board of Officers to assess the suitability of the Casual Editors, Linguists and Monitors for empanelment in CMS, Aya Nagar. The said officers knew the working patterns of the organization. The respondents informed the applicants and others about the assessment of their suitability by the Board of Officers. The applicants and others also signed the Assessment Sheet (Annexure R/2). Whosoever was unable to attend the assessment on the given date, the Board called him/her again as per his/her convenience to avoid any issue/controversy later on. The Board of Officers prepared a detailed report of assessment of all casual assignees including the applicants. The respondents approved the names of the casual assignees as per the recommendations of the Board of Officers and need of the organization. The selection of the candidates for empanelment was made purely on the basis of their merit and performance duly adjudged by the Board of Officers. The applicants were not called for duty from 1st October 2013 onwards, as they were not empanelled. 3.1 In their additional affidavit filed on 11.8.2015, the respondents have stated that the CFOG was closed in May 2015, and Casual Editors, Monitors and Typists, who were working in CFOG, Aya Nagar, New Delhi, and Field Unit at Kolkata, were de-empanelled/disengaged, vide order dated 08.05.2015 (Annexure R/3).