1. - In the present batch of writ petitions the compulsory retirement of the petitioners under rule 244 (2) of the Rajasthan Service Rules 1951 (for short RSR) has been challenged inter alia on the grounds that there was no relevant material on which the opinion could be formed that it was in the public interest to retire the petitioners compulsorily; the orders of compulsory retirement of the petitioners are unfair unjust and arbitrary; the uncommunicated Annual Performance Appraisal Reports (for short APARs) were taken into consideration while forming the requisite opinion that the compulsory retirement of the petitioners in public interest and they could not have formed the relevant material for forming the bonafde opinion; that the petitioners had been promoted from one rank to another and therefore so far as the APARs prior to their promotion are concerned they were washed-off and could not have been considered in order to compulsorily retire the petitioners. In some of the cases other grounds such as one of the conditions under rule 244(?) of RSR that Government servant concerned has completed 25 years qualifying service or should have attained the age of 10 years ha