RAJESH BALIA, J.

( 1 ) HEARD learned counsel for the appellant. These two appeals are directed against the common judgment passed by the learned single judge dated March 8, 2002 by which the writ petitions filed by the petitioner-appellant challenging the two orders of references made by the appropriate Government of an industrial dispute between the petitioner-appellant and its workmen, were dismissed. These two appeals are identical on facts and raise common question and therefore, they are being heard and decided together as was done by the learned single Judge.

( 2 ) THE facts giving rise to these appeals are that the respondents-workmen Mala Ram and Chhela Ram in D. B. Civil Special Appeal (Writ) No. 357/2003 arising from S. B. Civil writ Petition No. 1871/2001, had been appointed ostensibly by a fixed term appointment on September 14, 1993 for a period of six months and their services were terminated on March 17, 1994. A complaint against this termination was lodged before the joint Labour Commissioner, Jodhpur soon after vide complaint dated May 16, 1994 through an Authorised Representative of Metal engineering and Auto Works Union. According to this complaint, on