N. Y. HANUMANTHAPPA, J.

( 1 ) ALL these writ petitions have been filed by the employees working in the district Co-operative Central Bank Ltd. , of various districts seeking a direction to the respondents in the nature of a writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in fixing the age of superannuation of the petitioners at 58 years and contrary to the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Shops and establishments Act, 1988 (Act 20 of 1988) (for short the Act, 1988); and for a consequential order directing the respondents to continue the petitioners in service upto the age of sixty (60) years in the respondents-Banks.

( 2 ) THE point that arises for consideration in all these writ petitions is one and the same, Hence all these writ petitions are clubbed together and disposed of by this common judgment.

( 3 ) THE facts, in brief, are that the petitioners in these writ petitions are appointed in the respondents/banks in various districts under various capacities and discharging their duties. It is their contention that they have no managerial, administrative or supervisory power since their duties are basically clerical in nature, that the petitioners are working within the

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