1. - These six writ petitions have been heard together by consent of all concerned. Since a very short point is involved in them, they are being disposed of at the admission stage, itself. Since the questions of facts and law involved in each one of them are identical, I am disposing them by a common order.

2. Reply to show cause notice was filed in S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 1209/1991-Ishwar Singh and Ors. v. State and Ors. Replies in other cases have not been filed. Reply filed in S.B. Civil writ Petition No. 1209/1991 has been adopted by the learned Government Advocate in all the cases and learned Counsel for petitioners in all these writ petitions agree that reply filed in Ishwar Singh's case may be taken as reply in the other writ petitions too. Hence, the reply in Ishwar Singh's case has been taken as representative reply to all the writ petitions. For this very reason, I need not state the pleas raised in all the writ petitions, and a brief delineation of the averments of the petitioners in S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 1209/1991 may be taken as representative pleadings in all other cases.

3. The case of the petitioners is that the District Establishment Committee,