( 1 ) BASUMATI Corporation Ltd. , Respondent No. 1 in both the appeals, proposes to come out with the publication of its Newspaper, till now published from Calcutta only, from Siliguri also and with that end in view has ordered some of its officers and employees, including the appellants in these two appeals, to be transferred to Siliguri. The fourteen appellants in Appeal No. 423 and the sole applicants in Appeal No. 424 filed two separate Writ Petitions, giving rise to these two appeals, challenging the aforesaid Orders of transfer.

( 2 ) AFTER hearing both the petitioners and the respondents, the learned Judge on 5. 5. 92 passed interim Order staying the operation of the Orders of transfer assailed by appellants/writ-petitioners. The writ petitions were thereafter heard analogously in due course for about 3 days and these were listed for Judgement the day after, i. e. , on 29. 5. 92. On that date, however, the learned Judge thought it fit to set down the matters for further hearing on 25. 6. 92; this is the learned Judge could obviously do. But he also modified and in effect discharged the interim Orders already passed. This was again not beyond the com