1. Petitioner in all these writ applications are the employees of Health Department. Their services have been terminated on the basis of report submitted by Five Men Committee consituted under the direction of High Court in L.P.A. No. 946 of 2003. The report has put the services of the employees in three categories, irregular, illegal, and forged. Petitioners who have been put in either illegal or forged category, are recommended for termination from service.

2. Facts of almost all the cases disclose that petitioners were appointed long time back right from 1969 to 1987 and thereafter. In some of the cases, appointment of the petitioners were declared illegal on the ground that appointment was made by way of regularization from daily wages employees by an authority who was not competent to make appointment. In some of the cases it has been stated that appointments were not made against sanctioned posts, following the procedure for regular and legal appointment, as such appointments are illegal. In some of the cases, it is stated that appointment letters, on the basis of which petitioners were appointed were not issued from the office of those authorities, who are said to b