JUDGMENT

Mir Alfaz Ali, J. - All these petitions under Article 226 of the Constitution of India have been filed by the respective petitioners praying for setting aside the impugned order vide Memo No. AR/SSA/ESTT/APTET & CTET/Regu/Teacher/2017-18 dated 21-12-2017, whereby the regularization/appointment of the petitioners as Trained Graduate Teachers (for short TGT) and Primary Teachers (for short PRT) respectively, under the department of Elementary Education, Government of Arunachal Pradesh vide common order No.AR/SSA/ESTT/APTET/CTET/ Regu/teacher/2016-2017 dated 07-12-2017 has been withdrawn. The petitioners also pray for issuance of direction to the respondent authorities to allow the petitioners to discharge their duties as Trained Graduate Teachers (TGT) and Primary Teachers (PRT) and to release their pay and allowance. By the Writ Petition No. 9 of 2018 initially 135 nos. of petitioners approached this Court. However, 17 out of 135 petitioners have withdrawn leaving 118 in the fray.

2. The facts leading to the present writ petitions are as follows : The petitioners were appointed on contractual basis as Asstt. Teachers and Junior Teachers respectively under the scheme of Sarva