ORDER :

1. Since common question of law and fact is involved in all these writ petitions, therefore they are clubbed together, heard together and are being disposed of by this common order.

2. In all of these writ petitions, petitioners, at the relevant point of time, were working as Lecturer on contract basis in Government Engineering and Polytechnic Colleges. On complaint being received that petitioners are undergoing studies for M.E./M.Tech courses in the same colleges where they were working and they have also obtained degrees while working on the said post on contractual basis, an enquiry was conducted by the State Government and finding the allegations against the petitioners to be correct, their services have been terminated by the impugned order (Annexure P/1) under Rule 9 of Chhattisgarh Civil Sewa (Samvida Niyukti) Niyam, 2012 read with Rule 7 of Chhattisgarh Civil Services (Conduct) Rules, 1965 on the ground that they have obtained degrees of M.E./M.Tech without prior permission of the State Government.

3. Return has been filed by the State opposing the writ petitions stating inter alia that petitioners are guilty of undergoing M.E./M.Tech courses and obtaining degrees with