Common Order:

The Co-operative Societies of Employees of the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporations, have come up with these writ petitions challenging various orders passed by the Managements of the Transport Corporations, proposing to discontinue the practice of effecting recovery of dues to the Co-operative Societies from the wages payable to the employees.

2. I have heard Mrs.Nalini Chidambaram, learned Senior Counsel, Mr. T. Dhanyakumar and Mr. S.M. Subramaniam, learned counsel for the petitioners and Mr.Jayesh B. Dolia, learned counsel appearing for the respondent-Corporations.

3. The Thiruvalluvar Transport Corporation Employees Co-operative Credit Society Ltd., which is the petitioner in W.P.No.30864 of 2008, was registered under the Multi State Co-operative Societies Act, 1984. The Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation Employees Co-operative Thrift and Credit Society Ltd., which is the petitioner in W.P.No.1547 of 2009, was originally registered under the Tamil Nadu Co-operative Societies Act and was later converted into a Multi State Co-operative Society, after its operations were extended beyond the State of Tamil Nadu. The Tamil Nadu State Transport Corpo