JUDGMENT : Valmiki J. Mehta, J. 1. This writ petition is filed by twelve petitioners as per amended memo of parties dated 23.4.2009. 2. The petitioners are employed by the respondents No. 1 and 2 as gardeners, sweepers and guards. In the writ petition, the following reliefs are claimed :- (a) A writ of Certiorary to respondents to regularise the employment of the petitioners. (b) To issue any writ directions of order to the respondents to frame proper rules governing the appointment salaries, increment, promotion, provident fund, pension, leave, medical, housing, etc. (c) To issue any writ direction or order prohibiting the respondents to terminate the services of the petitioners without falling a laid-down procedure and the principle of natural justice. (d) To issue writ any direction or order to regulate the working hours and the requirements of health of the petitioners. (e) To issue any other writ direction or order which this Hon’ble Court may deem fit and proper in the facts and circumstances of this case”. 3. So far as the reliefs (a) and © are concerned, the same cannot be granted in view of the ratio laid down by the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court in the case of Secretary, State of Karnataka & Ors. Vs. Umadevi & Ors., (2006) 4 SCC, which is reproduced as under:- (I) The questions to be asked before regularization are:- (a)(i) Was there a sanctioned post (court cannot order creation of posts because finances of the state may go haywire), (ii) is there a vacancy, (iii) are the persons qualified persons and (iv) are the appointments through regular recruitment process of calling all possible persons and which process involves inter-se competition among the candidates (b) A court can condone an irregularity in the appointment procedure only if the irregularity does not go to the root of the matter. (II) For sanctioned posts having vacancies, such posts have to be filled by regular recruitment process of prescribed procedure otherwise, the constitutional mandate flowing from Articles 14,16,309, 315, 320 etc is violated. (III) In case of existence of necessary circumstances the government has a right to appoint contract employees or casual labour or employees for a project, but, such persons form a class in themselves and they cannot claim equality(except possibly for equal pay for equal work) with regular employees who form a separate class. (III) In case of existence of necessary circumstances the government has a right to appoint contract employees or casual labour or employees for a project, but, such persons form a class in themselves and they cannot claim equality(except possibly for equal pay for equal work) with regular employees who form a separate class. Such temporary employees cannot claim legitimate expectation of absorption/regularization as they knew when they were appointed that they were temporary inasmuch as the government did not give and nor could have given an assurance of regularization without the regular recruitment process being followed. Such irregularly appointed persons cannot claim to be regularized alleging violation of Article 21. Also the equity in favour of the millions who await public employment through the regular recruitment process outweighs the equity in favour of the limited number of irregularly appointed persons who claim regularization. (IV) Once there are vacancies in sanctioned posts such vacancies cannot be filled in except without regular recruitment process, and thus neither the court nor the executive can frame a scheme to absorb or regularize persons appointed to such posts without following the regular recruitment process. (V) At the instance of persons irregularly appointed the process of regular recruitment shall not be stopped. Courts should not pass interim orders to continue employment of such irregularly appointed persons because the same will result in stoppage of recruitment through regular appointment procedure. (VI) If there are sanctioned posts with vacancies, and qualified persons were appointed without a regular recruitment process, then, such persons who when the judgment of Uma Devi is passed have worked for over 10 years without court orders, such persons be regularized under schemes to be framed by the concerned organization. (VII) The aforesaid law which applies to the Union and the States will also apply to all instrumentalities of the State governed by Article 12 of the Constitution. 4(i). A reading of the aforesaid ratio laid down by the Supreme Court in Uma Devi’s (supra) case shows that employees cannot be granted regularization unless the appointments are against the vacancies in sanctioned posts and such persons who seek regularization have been appointed under the regular recruitment process and such persons satisfy the necessary qualifications. 4(i). A reading of the aforesaid ratio laid down by the Supreme Court in Uma Devi’s (supra) case shows that employees cannot be granted regularization unless the appointments