JUDGMENT :

Sujit Narayan Prasad, J.

1. All these appeals have been directed to be listed together as would appear from the order dated 07.03.2019 since common order is under challenge.

2. L.P.A. No. 141 of 2019 has been preferred by the State while L.P.A. Nos.109 of 2019; 111 of 2019 and; 113 of 2019 have been preferred by the Sido Kanhu Murmu University.

3. These intra court appeals under Clause 10 of the Letters Patent are directed against the order/judgment dated 08.05.2017 passed by learned Single Judge of this Court in W.P.(S) No.3893 of 2016 and other analogous matters, whereby and whereunder, the claim of the writ petitioners for regularization as was rejected vide order dated 08.04.2016, has been refused to be interfered with but a direction has been passed upon the respondent concerned that till the regular appointments are made, the writ petitioners shall not be removed from their post and if, disengaged by virtue of order dated 04.05.2012, they shall be continued in service.

Apart from that, the writ petitioners have been directed to be paid minimum of pay scale of lecturer as approved by the UGC.

4. The brief facts of the case as per the pleading made in the writ petitions required to be enumerated, read as under:

The writ petitioners were appointed as teachers on 15.03.1982 and 01.07.1982 respectively and have been working on the said posts with other regular lecturers.

It is the case of the writ petitioners that the Vice-Chancellor of Bhagalpur University wrote a letter bearing letter no. 7677 dated 15/30.04.1985 to the Department of Human Resources for sanction of posts in faculty of the College. The Bhagalpur University constituted a team for inspection of the college for creation of the additional posts in the science faculty and inspection was executed on 23.06.1987 and report was submitted to the State Government on 21.11.1987.. In the said inspection report, the name of the writ petitioners figures as lecturer in the Department of Botony and Department of Statistics respectively.

When services of the petitioners and other ad-hoc appointees were disengaged, they approached the High Court of Patna and the matter finally travelled to the Hon’ble Supreme Court in S.L.P. (C) No. 11078 of 1989. The Special Leave Petition and batch of writ petitions were heard together and disposed of by an order dated 06.12.1989, which was modified by an order dated 15.01.1990. Pursuant to the order passed by the Supreme Court, the petitioners resumed their duties on 15.09.1990 as communicated through letter bearing No. B/4931-5005 issued by the Bhagalpur University.

Thereafter, in the year 1992 the Bhagalpur University bifurcated and another University, namely, Sido Kanhu Murmu University, Dumka was formed and A.S. College, Deoghar was placed under Sido Kanhu Murmu University, Dumka.

Again, petitioners' services were terminated vide letter dated 25.09.1997. A writ petition being C.W.J.C. No. 10128 of 1997 was filed by one of the similarly situated appointees, namely, Sri Nikudimus Tudu and the writ petition was allowed quashing the termination vide order dated 10.05.1999 and thereafter, the petitioners also approached the writ Court in C.W.J.C. No. 3916 of 2000. By an order dated 05.07.2000, writ petition filed by the petitioners was allowed and consequently, they were continued in service.

The University sent a letter dated 04.09.2002 to the Department of Human Resources Development, Government of Jharkhand for creation of posts of teachers. Thereafter, on 01.04.2003, the State Government