JUDGMENT :

[S.N. Pathak, J.]

1. Heard the parties.

2. Since common issues are involved in all these writ petitions and as such, they are heard together and are being disposed of by this common order.

3. All these writ petitions have been filed at the instance of the petitioners, who were appointed in the service of Jharkhand State Mineral Development Corporation Limited (for short ‘Corporation’) on contractual basis and subsequently all of them were regularized in service with effect from 12.5.2012. They are claiming the benefit of regularization. The petitioners have also prayed for quashing of the order dated 18.5.2016 (Annexure-26) as also the Board Resolution dated 10.6.2016 (Annexure-27), whereby the petitioners’ claim for extending the benefit of regularisation has been rejected.

4. As per factual matrix, all the petitioners were appointed on sanctioned and vacant posts pursuant to advertisement floated by the respondent Corporation after following due procedure. Though the appointments were for limited period, but the same got extended from time to time as per Annexure-4 series and Annexure-6 series. The Board of Directors of the Corporation in its 24th meeting held on 11.8.201