1. Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case Nos. 80 and 79 of 1977 have been heard together as a common point of law arises for decision on similar facts. In C. W. J. C. No. 80 of 1977 Gopal Nath Sharma, the petitioner in this case, has prayed that the order contained in Annexure-2 of 9th Aug. 1975 be quashed. In C. W. J. C. No. 79 of 1977, the petitioner, namely Bhola Nath Choudhary has prayed that the order contained in Annexure-3 of the same date be quashed. The petitioner in either case by the said Annexure has been black-listed permanently and debarred from purchasing any forest coupe and to work as an agent of any forest contractor in the Bihar Forest Department. The orders contained in both the annexures have been passed by the Chief Conservator of Forest, Bihar and the same were communicated to the petitioners by the Divisional Forest Officers concerned who are respondent No. 3 in the writ petitions.

2. The case of the petitioners is that they had been doing forest contract business under Forest Department for about 15 years, during the course of which they had specialised and adopted forest contract as their livelihood and have made huge investments in machines etc., and for o