Judgement

BEG, J.:- The State of Mysore has appealed by Special leave to this Court against a judgment of a Division Bench of the Mysore High Court allowing three Writ Petitions raising common questions of law and fact. There are thus three connected appeals before us against a common judgment which will be dealt with by us in a single judgment.

2. Each of the three petitioners before the High Court, now Respondents before us, had challenged the validity of reversion orders passed against them on 25-10-1956 by the Superintendent of Police (Wireless), in the then State of Bombay, a few days before the Central Government, by an order dated 31st October, 1956, made under Section 115, sub-section (2) of the States Reorganisation Act of 1956 (hereinafter referred to as the Act ) allotted the respondent to the newly formed State of Mysore. The respondent had been officiating, before their reversion, as Wireless Operators on a pay scale of Rs.80-5-100, after successfully passing an examination held in 1955 by the Police Wireless Training Centre at which the respondent Y. L. Mirajkar secured the 16th place, the respondent R. R. Kulkarni the 20th place, and respondent V. S. Bhandari the 30th