JUDGMENT :

(Common Prayer: Petitions filed under Article 226 of Constitution of India to issue a Writ of Mandamus, directing the respondents to regularise the services of the petitioners in the light of the proposals forwarded by the 2nd respondent in its Letter No.08075/R2/2014 dated 20.05.2014 and Letter R.No.37816/54/2017 dated 18.12.2017 with all attendant benefits.)

The petitioners have come forward with these writ petitions, seeking a direction to the respondents to regularise the services of the petitioners in the light of the proposals forwarded by the 2nd respondent in its Letter No.08075/R2/2014 dated 20.05.2014 and Letter R.No.37816/54/2017 dated 18.12.2017 with all attendant benefits.

2. The issue involved in these petitions is one and the same and they are taken up together for disposal by this common order. For the sake of brevity, the facts are taken up from W.P.No.14782 of 2020, which read as follows:

i) The petitioners joined various Regional Transport Offices (RTOs) in the State as Programmer / System Analysts, after acquiring qualifications either in B.E.Computer Science / BCA or B.Sc. Computer Science and the process of computerisation was undertaken through agency