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7. The Tribunal by the impugned order rejected the aforesaid OA primarily by relying on the decision of the Supreme Court in Delhi Development Horticulture Employees' Union v. Delhi Administration, Delhi and Ors. wherein the Hon'ble Supreme Court had held that regularisation of ad hoc appointees in temporary or time-bound schemes could not be considered. The appointment of such ad hoc employees was co-terminus with the life of the scheme. Regularisation cannot be a mode of recruitment where the ad-hoc employees have been picked up from the open market without following any rules of appointment.