These two writ petitions concern themselves with the issue of non-payment of certain terminal and other service benefits to the petitioners by their employer namely the Cement Corporation of India Limited ('CCIL' for brevity), despite this Court declaring, in its Order dated 6th July, 1999 in WP No.10228 of 1998 and Batch, that the transferring of the petitioner and other employees to another company i.e., India Cement Limited ('ICL' for brevity), was illegal and void. The petitioners, having attained the age of superannuation in the meanwhile, claimed terminal benefits, as if they had continued in the parent company i.e., Cement Corporation of India Limited.

2. Both the writ petitions are disposed of through this Common Order since the same question of law and fact arises involving the same respondent and its erstwhile employees, who are similarly placed in service in all respects.

3. To appreciate the issue in the factual context, the facts as obtained in WP No, 11114 of 2006 are extracted herein below.

4. The petitioner, having joined the Cement Corporation of India Limited (CCIL), a Government of India Corporation, in October, 1978, and later having been promoted as Manager,