JUDGMENT

Brijesh Kumar, J.-The State of West Bengal and others have preferred these appeals against the judgment and order passed by the Division Bench of Calcutta High Court, dated May 2, 1996, dismissing their appeals with some modification in the judgment of the learned Single Judge, allowing, by a common judgment, four writ petitions filed by respondents-petitioners. It will be pertinent to mention here that the Union of India, the Inspector General, Border Security Force and the Commandant 65 Battalion, Border Security Force, Calcutta were also impleaded, in the appeal, as proforma respondents 10 to 12 in the High Court.

2. The part time Border Wing Home Guards (for short BWHG ) being dissatisfied with the pitiable conditions of service under which they had been working and the nominal emoluments paid to them, preferred four writ petitions before the Calcutta High Court complaining that they were being discriminated vis-a-vis other regular Border Wing Home Guards of the West Bengal and the Border Security Force Personnel, as the writ petitioner-respondents had also been performing similar duties and discharging same responsibilities. The learned Single Judge considering all th