( 1 ) THESE three writ petitions were heard analogously since all these three writ petitions involve certain common principles of law. Though the facts are different, though the questions that arise out of these common principles are different, yet there are certain communions of identity within the question to be answered. Therefore, though we have heard the common principles together in respect of the three writ petitions, but in effect we have heard the three writ petitions simultaneously one after the other.

1]. The learned Counsel for the respective parties had also addressed the Court accordingly. We, therefore, propose to dispose of these three matters by a common judgment dealing with the common principles in the judgment in Falakata Industries Ltd. and Anr. (W. P. L. R. T. No. 348 of 2005 ). But we have dealt with the three cases on the basis of the respective facts involving different questions of law applicable to such respective facts, emanating from the common principles of law, separately one after the other with reference to the common principles dealt with in Falakata industries Ltd. as hereafter.

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