Association filed a writ petition in W.P.No.6872 of 2001 seeking for mandamus directing the respondents therein to treat the members of the petitioner-Association, whose names are furnished in the typed set of papers, employed by the 3rd respondent through the 4th respondent in the canteen, as regular employees of the Port Trust and pay them all attendant and monetary benefits from the date of their appointment in the 4th respondent on par with the regular employees of the 3rd respondent by declaring the members of the petitionerAssociation as the direct employees of the Chennai Port Trust. The said writ petition was allowed as prayed for on 24.08.2005. The Chennai Port Trust challenged the said order in W.A.No.66 of 2006. The Division Bench of this Court, by order dated 21.02.2006, dismissed the said writ appeal. Further challenge before the Apex Court in Civil Appeal No.1381 of 2010 was also rejected by dismissing the said writ appeal on 27.04.2018. A review petition No.3101 of 2018 filed before the Apex Court was also rejected on 04.10.2018. Therefore, the said order dated 24.08.2005 passed in W.P.No.6872 of 2001 has become final and binding on all the parties. At the time of filing the writ petition, there are only 72 members registered in the petitioner-Association, even though there were 117 regular employees in the canteen. Subsequently, those 37 workers in the establishment list as on the date of filing of the above writ petition were joined as members of the petitioner-Association. However, the benefit provided vide order dated 24.08.2005 in W.P.No.6872 of 2001 was restricted only to those 72 workers and not to all the remaining canteen workers at par with those 72 workers. Therefore, the present writ petition is filed with the relief as stated supra. 3. An affidavit is filed by the third respondent dated 14.02.2020, in which, it is stated that on perusal of the list of employees furnished by the petitioner, out of 37 employees, 35 employees were employed in the Chennai Port Trust Industrial Employees' Cooperative Canteen during the relevant period of filing the earlier writ petition in W.P.No.6872 of 2001 dated 02.04.2001 by the Chennai Port Trust Industrial Employees' Cooperative Canteen Workers' Welfare Association viz., the petitioner-Association. It is further stated that 2 employees viz., P.Krishnamoorthy and T.Thirugnanasambandam, who are shown in S.Nos. 30 and 10 respectively, were not in the muster roll during the relevant point of time, since both of them were terminated from service from 28.01.1997 to 02.01.2007 and from 18.12.2000 to 23.11.2001 respectively. It is further stated that those 2 employees were subsequently reinstated into service and they were allowed to retire and the terminal benefits were settled by granting continuity of service along with 50% of
