Shiva Kirti Singh, J.

1. These five writ applications have been heard together and are being disposed of by this common judgment because the petitioners in all these five cases are similarly situated Class III and Class IV employees of Bihar Legislative Assembly appointed by the erstwhile Speaker of the Assembly after 1.11.90 in similar fashion, who have been removed from service by a common order dated 15.9.97 and in all the cases common points of law and facts are involved.

2. Keeping in view the facts of the case and the stand of the parties it is deemed necessary that before going into facts involved in these cases a bird's eye view be cast upon the admitted background materials that have culminated into termination of altogether 183 employees of Bihar Legislative Assembly by impugned order dated 15.9.97 including the services of all the petitioners in these five writ applications. Coinciding with convening of a new Bihar Legislative Assembly, one Mr. Gulam Sarwar became the speaker of the Assembly sometime in April, 1990 and continued as such till March 1995. After him the present speaker came to occupy that post in April, 1995. The erstwhile speaker made about 185 appoi