JUDGMENT :

1. RULE. Learned AGP Ms.Shruti Pathak waives service of Rule on behalf of respondent No.1 and learned Advocate Mr.Chinmay Gandhi waives service of Rule on behalf of respondent No.2.

2. All these petitions are having identical facts and arise in common background and therefore, with consent of learned Advocates for the parties, are taken up for joint hearing and disposal. The facts are recorded from Special Civil Application No.21719 of 2016.

3. This petition along with group of petitions is preferred with the prayer to quash and set aside the impugned order dated 22.12.2016 passed by respondent No.2, whereby all appointments made in the regular pay scales of Class-III cadre vide advertisement dated 11.05.2013 were withdrawn from the date of their appointments and all such appointments were directed to be fixed as per the Finance Department’s GRs dated 16.02.2006, 29.04.2010, 06.10.2011, 23.10.2014 and 20.10.2015. It was informed that the petitioners would be liable to deposit amount paid in excess of their salaries to the Chief Accounts Officer, Gandhinagar in excess to their salary to the Chief Accountant Office, Gandhinagar.

4. The brief facts are as that on 11.5.2013, GID