Shiva Kirti Singh, J.

1. All these 16 matters have been heard together because they involve common questions of law and facts. Except the matter in LPA No. 644 of 2006 all other matters have been admitted for hearing pursuant to an order of remand passed by the Hon ble Supreme Court in Civil Appeal No. 5845 of 2004 and other analogous appeals. By that order the judgments passed by a Division Bench of this Court dismissing the Letters Patent Appeals of the employees was set aside only on the ground that one of the learned Judges who decided the appeals had also heard and decided some of the writ petitions of some of the appellants. The Hon ble Supreme Court, therefore, remanded the matters to this Court for hearing and disposal by a Bench of Judges who had not dealt with the concerned writ petitions sitting singly. Thereafter, those matters were admitted for hearing by an order dated 7.11.2006 in view of ratio laid down by the Apex Court in the case of Delhi Transport Corporation vs. DTC Mazdoor Congress and Ors. (AIR 1991 SC 101) and in the case of Basudeo Tiwary vs. Sido Kanhu University & Ors. (AIR 1998 SC 3261) [: 1999(1) PLJR (SC)30].

2. The impugned orders and the admi