1. These 22 writ petitions raise almost common questions of law and facts and, therefore, they were heard together and are being disposed of by a common order.

2. Briefly stated, the facts of these writ petitions are : that in these writ petitions, the petitioners have mostly challenged the charge-sheets that have been served on them for their different acts of misconduct and in most of these writ petitions, the enquiries are pending. In D.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 3574 of 1991, V.K. Chaturvedi v. Union of India and others, the petitioner has been reverted to the rank of Sub Inspector for a period of two years vide order Annexure A/6. In D.B. Civil Writ Petitions No. 6599 of 1991, S.C. Kataria v. Union of India and others, and 3674 of 1992, Raj Singh v. Union of India and others, the petitioners have been punished with stoppage of two grade increments with cumulative effect. In D.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 4595 of 1991, Om Prakash v. Union of India and others, the enquiry report was supplied to the petitioner along with the punishment order. In D.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 4984 of 1992, Sheo Pratap Tiwari v. Union of India and others, initially an enquiry