JUDGMENT :

[Murali Purushothaman, J.]

1. Since common issues arise for consideration in these writ petitions, they are disposed of by this common judgment. For the sake of convenience, unless otherwise specifically indicated, the status of the parties and the exhibits referred to hereinbelow shall be as obtaining in W.P.(C) No.1948/2021.

2. The Regional Cancer Centre Employees Co-operative Society (hereinafter referred to as ’Society’), a Society registered under the Kerala Co-operative Societies Act, 1969, has filed the writ petitions challenging Ext.P5 common order passed by the Kerala Lok Ayukta (‘Lok Ayukta’ for short) in Complaint Nos.1060/16B and 1062/16C preferred by the 1st respondent in the above writ petitions respectively (hereinafter referred to as ‘complainants’).

3. The short facts necessary for the disposal of the writ petitions are as follows :

The complainants were Class-IV employees working as Cleaners in the Regional Cancer Centre (RCC), Thiruvananthapuram. They received a letter dated 25.10.2014 from the Society informing that they had stood as sureties to Smt. Ambika Devi, the 2nd respondent, another Class-IV employee of the RCC (hereinafter referred to as ‘loa