Ujjal Bhuyan, J.:--

This order will dispose of the above bunch of cases.

2. Subject matter of all the writ petitions being identical, those were clubbed and heard together.

3. Heard Mr. R Mazumdar, Mr. TN Srinivasan, Mr. B Pathak and Mrs. S Bora, learned counsel for the petitioners and a host of learned Central Govt. Counsel, namely, Mr. M Phukan, Mrs. A Gayan, Ms. B Sarma, Mr. SS Roy, Mr. KK Parasar, Ms. R Devi and Ms. A Das. In course of the hearing, Mr. SC Keyal, learned Assistant Solicitor General had also made submissions.

4. Matter relates to premature retirement of personnel belonging to the Assam Rifles.

5. For the sake of convenience, pleadings made in WP(C) No.1250/2015 are being referred to. In fact, Mr. SC Keyal, learned Assistant Solicitor General had submitted on 06.05.2016, as recorded in the order sheet of WP(C) No.1250/2015, that counter-affidavit filed by the respondents in WP(C) No.1250/2015 may be treated as the lead affidavit covering all the cases.

6. Petitioner in WP(C) No.1250/2015 (referred to as the petitioner hereinafter) had joined service in the Assam Rifles as Rifleman/Nursing Assistant on 04.03.1985. In the course of his service, he had risen through the ra

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