JUDGMENT :

Songkhupchung Serto, J.

1. These six writ petitions have been taken up together since all the petitioners belong to the same Department i.e. Tourism Department, Government of Nagaland and the issues involved are similar.

2. W.P.(C) No. 21/2019 and W.P.(C) No. 190/2020 are filed by the same person namely, Kevingutuo Sekhose. In the first writ petition i.e. W.P.(C) No. 21/2019, the petitioner is challenging the termination order of his service as Tourism Officer and in the second writ petition i.e. W.P.(C) No. 190/2020 he is praying for a direction directing the respondents to release his pay and allowance from the date of his joining the service till date.

From the record it appears that the petitioner was appointed to the post of Tourist Officer (Class-II Gazetted) with a scale of pay and all allowances admissible from time to time on temporary basis against sanctioned post vide order No. TRSM-01/01/2009/441, dated 04/06/2016, issued by the Secretary to the Government of Nagaland, Tourism Department and his service was regularized by another order vide No. TRSM/ESTT-2/11/2009, dated 06/12/2017, issued by the Commissioner & Secretary, Government of Nagaland, Tourism Departmen