JUDGMENT:- Appeals are by special leave. The writ petition is under Article 32 of the Constitution. Special leave is granted in SLP No. 15118/86.

2. The facts and the questions for consideration by this Court in all these cases are common and, therefore, with this order all these cases shall stand disposed of.

3. Appellants in the appeals and the petitioners in the writ petition are employees in the work charged establishment of the Irrigation Branch of the Public Works Department of the Statement Government of Haryana. It is not in dispute that they have been in employment for many years.

4. It is contended that termination of their services under executive instructions was not justifiable particularly when they had put in such a long period of service and while persons junior to them in such service have been retained. It has further been contended that while the services of all these appellants have been terminated fresh recruitment has been made almost simultaneously which goes to show that there was need for such service and there was, therefore, no justification for termination of services of the appellants.

5. Reliance is also placed on an order of this Court in Writ Petition No