2. Petitioners in all these petitions have been engaged as Daily Rated Workers/Seasonal Workers or Causal Labourers by the Respondents, including Field/Subordinate Officers. In these petitions, they seek direction to the respondents to regularise their services under the provisions of SRO 64 of 1994 on the ground that they have completed seven years as Daily Rated Workers/Casual Workers and seasonal Labourers and also on the ground that some of the petitioners, who have not completed seven years service but have performed election duty in the Valley are entitled to seek regularisation of their services in terms of Government order No. 355-GAD of 1996 dated 30th April, 1996. In some of the petitions, the petitioners plead, that while working as Daily Rated workers/ Casual Workers/Seasonal Workers they were taken into preventive detention and, after their release from such detention, have been re-engaged and, therefore, the period for which they were kept in preventive detention should be taken into consideration as having actively worked in their respective engagements and by givin