S.B. Sinha, J.

These two writ applications involving common questions of law and fact were heard together and are being disposed of by this common judgment.

2. In CWJC 1995/90R the petitioner has sought for issuance of an appropriate writ for quashing the office order dated 4.7.1990 as contained in Annexure-1 whereby and whereunder the petitioners who were working in the Inspection and Progress Department were directed to be transferred and posted to the Inspection wing of Research and Control Laboratory in parallel grade.

In C.W.J.C. 1996/90R, the petitioners have sought for issuance of appropriate writ for quashing an office order dated 4.7.1990 as contained in Annexure-1, whereby the petitioners who were posted in the Inspection and Progress Department were directed to be transferred to Internal Audit Department.

2A. The fact of the matter lies in a very narrow compass. The petitioners in both the writ applications had been working as Inspectors or Inspecting Assistants in the Inspection and Progress Department of the Bokaro Steel Plant of the respondent-company. According to the, petitioners, the said Inspection & Progress Department undertakes inspection of materials used