V. Ramasubramanian, J.

1. Though there are six writ appeals and one writ petition, all of them arise out of two sets of disciplinary proceedings initiated by the management of the State Bank of India against a person working as a Special Assistant in the Chennai Branch of the bank and two of his colleagues, who are office bearers of a trade union of employees of the bank.

2. Heard Mr.T.R.Rajagopalan, learned Senior Counsel for the management of the bank and Mr.Balan Haridas, learned counsel for the employees.

3. These six writ appeals and the writ petition, for the purpose of easy appreciation can be categorized as follows :

(i) W.A.Nos.336, 356 and 357 of 2008 arising out the dismissal of writ petitions filed by the president (M.V.Thangaswamy), general secretary (S.Gunasekar) and treasurer (G.Arasukumar) of the State Bank of India Ambedkar Trade Union (for short Ambedkar Union) challenging the charge memos issued against them in March/April 2007.

(ii) W.A.No.1657 of 2014 filed by the management of the State Bank of India (for short SBI) questioning the correctness of