S.J. Mukhopadhaya, J.

These writ petitions were preferred by employees of Co-operative Societies against their respective show cause notice issued by the Deputy Registrar of the co-operative society asking them to state as to why their services should not be terminated, their appointment being illegal. Instead of submitting reply to the show cause notice, the respective employees have challenged the show cause notice on the ground that their appointments are not suffering from any illegality and the show cause notice is contrary to law.

2. The show cause notices were issued pursuant to judgment passed by Division Bench of this Court in L. Justine Vs The Registrar of Coop. Societies, Chennai reported in 2002 (4) CTC 385, wherein at paragraph 19 (v), the following order was passed :-

"19. ..... (v) direct that within two months of the approval of the special bye-laws under sub-Rule (1) of the Rule 149 of the Rules, the respective Deputy Registrars of Cooperative Societies having jurisdiction over the co-operative societies in their Divisions, shall enquire, by issuing notice to the entire staff recruited from 7. 1980 to 13. 2001, and decide as to whether the said recruitmen