JUDGMENT

Balbir Singh Chauhan, J.

1. These appeals have been preferred against the impugned judgments and orders dated 21.11.2012 and 16.11.2012 in Writ Appeal Nos. 2402, 2403 2404, 2405 of 2012 and 2555, 2556 of 2012 passed by the High Court of Madras, by which the High Court has regularised the services of part-time sweepers (Respondents herein).

2. Facts and circumstances giving rise to these appeals are that:

The Respondents had been appointed as part-time sweepers by Appellants from 1987 till 1993 as their initial appointments had been issued to the Respondents and others on 1.12.1987, 2.5.1991, 1.4.1993, 10.4.1993, 27.5.1999 and 19.1.2001. As the Respondents and others had been working for more than 10 years, they filed Writ Petition Nos. 17468, 17470, 17472, 17473, 17469 and 17471 of 2012 before the High Court of Madras for seeking regularisation of their services. The said Writ Petitions were allowed by the common judgment and order dated 23.7.2012 with the direction to regularise the services of the Respondents on full time basis based on the individual representation after verifying their service particulars from the date of completion of 10 years of service with time scale o