A. K. Ganguly, J.

1. These four Letters patent Appeals were heard analogously as they were filed against one judgment and involve common questions of fact and law.

2. All these four Letters Patent appeals were filed against the judgment of a learned Single Judge delivered in c. W. J. C. No.7995 of 1990 on 23rd december, 1994 whereby His Lordship quashed the appointment of 285 persons made by the Speaker to the posts of Assistants, Typists, Hindi Research assistant, Hindi Expert, Security, durban, Daftari, Sweeper, Peon, all class III and Class IV Posts, as in the opinion of the learned Single Judge such appointments were in violation of the provisions contained in Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution of India.

3. Out of those four appeals, L. P. A. No.20 of 1995 was filed by the Bihar legislative Assembly through its secretary Sri Yugal Kishore Prasad and the other three appeals, namely, L. P. A. Nos, 22 of 1995, 23 of 1995 and 25 of 1995 were filed by those persons whose appointments were quashed by the learned Single Judge by his judgment as aforesaid (hereinafter referred to as the judgment of the first Court ).

4. It appears that most of the appellants in L. P. A. Nos