B.P. Singh, J.

1. In this batch of writ applications the petitioners have prayed for sub-stantially same reliefs and, therefore, these writ petitions have been heard together, and are being disposed of by this common judgment. At the there should I may briefly indicate the scope of the writ petitions. The petitioners were appointed by the State Leprosy Eradication Officer of the State of Bihar in the month of June 1987 as Non-Medical Assistants, and were posted at the different Leprosy Rehabilitation Centers under different Civil Surgeons in different districts. They claim to have joined their places of posting, but the Secretary, Government of Bihar, issued a letter only a few days later on 15-6-1987 terminating all the appointments, since they were said to have been illegally made by the State Leprosy Eradication Officer. Consequently, the Civil Surgeons, under whom the petitioners were working, stopped them from functioning against the post to which they were appointed. Consequently, the petitioners did not receive the salaries and allowances due to them. They had, therefore, represented to the State Government and ultimately the Director, Primary Health Services, by his