ORDER

1. These appeals raise common questions regarding regularisation as

regular mazdoors of ticca mazdoors engaged on daily-wage basis at the Ahmedabad Branch of Reserve Bank of India (hereinafter referred to as "the Bank"). Civil Appeals Nos. 7406 and 7407 of 1994 arise out of Special Civil Application No. 4669 of 1987 filed in the Gujarat High Court by 35 such ticca mazdoors. The said application was allowed by the learned Single Judge by his judgment dated 13-2-1991, whereby the Bank was directed to regularise the petitioners in that petition as mazdoors in regular employment

of the Bank and to grant them all other benefits flowing from such regularisation with effect from 1-10-1987, the date of the institution of the said petition. The Bank was also directed to pay to the said petitioners all the benefits flowing from such regularisation. The letters patent appeal (LPA No. 99 of 1991) filed by the Bank against the said judgment of the learned Single Judge was disposed of by the Division Bench of the High Court by judgment dated 30-11-1993, whereby the date of regularisation was altered from 1-10-1987 to 1-1-1991. Out of 35 petitioners who had moved the High Court, initially 7