K.P. Dandapani, J.

A common question arises in these original petitions and therefore, they are heard and disposed of together.

2. Petitioners in these original petitions are engaged in the business of transporting goods on contract basis. Petitioners had been engaged by the Ist respondent Kerala State Civil Supplies Corporation Ltd. (for short 'the Corporation') for transporting various items from various States to Kerala. According to the petitioners, they have been discharging the work to the full satisfaction of the respondent-Corporation. In view of the course that I propose to adopt in disposing of these cases, I do not think it necessary to go into the facts of each case. As facts unfolded, I find, all the petitioners are issued with show cause notices (Ext. P13 in O. P. No. 7596/90) and threatened with cancellation of the registration of the petitioners with the Corporation and debarring permanently from participating in any tender and entering into any contract with the Corporation and petitioners were given 7 days' time for filing explanation.

3. All the petitioners mainly challenge this show cause notices. However, along with this prayer of certiorari to quash t