JUDGEMENT
Rakesh Tiwari, J. -
(1.)HEARD counsel for the petitioners and Sri H. N. Singh, P. N. Tripathi, Sri Satya Prakash Pandey and other counsel in the connected writ petitions on behalf of the petitioners and Sri M. C. Chaturvedi, Additional Chief Standing Counsel assisted by Sri Rajnikant Tiwari and Sri Ravi Ranjan.
(2.)PETITIONERS have preferred this petition challenging the validity and correctness of the impugned order of termination passed by I. G. of Registration/District Registrar terminating the services of the petitioners from the post of Junior Clerks/Registration Clerks. Writ Petition No. 27230 of 2003. Ramveer Singh v. State through Secretary Institutional Finance. U. P., Lucknow and Ors., has been taken up as the leading case with the consent of the parties.
The I. G. Registration Department required dally wagers for copying of the registered documents at the districts level. A number of daily wagers were engaged by the department who are working for the last several years as Registration Clerks for speedy disposal of pending arrears of the documents in the Registration office with the condition that their appointment will not be for more than 3 months in a financial year. These dally wagers/Registration clerks were paid from head of account number 2030, 'Stamp and Registration' under non -plan expenditure. The appointment of the Registration Clerk were made on a post which is sanctioned by the Governor every year with express condition that the appointment shall not exceed three months during the course of financial year.
(3.)THE U. P. Registration Department District Establishment Ministerial Rules, 1978 were published on May 12th, 1978. These rules were amended in 1978. By the amendment, the I. G. Registration became the appointing authority of Registration Clerk instead of the District Registrar.
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