T. N. C. RANGA RAJAN, J.

( 1 ) THESE writ petitions challenge the termination of the services of persons who claimed that they have been working for a long time with the 2nd respondent-Corporation. The termination has been made in pursuance of a general office order dated 5-8-1995 which stated that several appointments have been made in the Corporation without written permission from the competent authority that the Act 2 of 1994 was promulgated to weed out such illegal appointments, and therefore, the concerned Unit Officers were directed to take immediate and necessary action to terminate the services of those daily wage/nmr/temporary/consolidated wage employees since they do not satisfy the conditions laid down in G. O. Ms. No. 212 dated 22-2-1994 for having their services regularised. The said office order further states that there are no regular vacancies to absorb them and that the said Government order has no statutory force and cannot override the Act and no Court should enforce any decree or direction for regularisation by virtue of the Act 2 of 1994. In several of the cases, orders of termination have been passed but in many cases, no specific order has been passed and in

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