JUDGMENT :

Prayer in W.P.No.21440/2015: Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, for issuance of a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus, to call for the records of the impugned order in Na.Ka.No.114175/2011/WP2 dated 25.05.2015 passed by the 3rd respondent herein and quash the same and consequently direct the respondents nos.1 to 4 to regularize the services of the petitioners post ration shop packer with all monetary and attendant benefits.

1. The current batch of Writ Petitions are filed seeking for regularization of the services of the Petitioners/Respondent Employee, as the case may be.

2. The Petitioners have all joined as salesmen or as packers in various Cooperative Societies, Marketing Societies and Cooperative Wholesale Stores (hereinafter collectively referred to as “cooperative societies” or “societies”) before 12.03.2001. It is an admitted case that none of these Petitioners were sponsored from the employment exchange. They were all recruited by the respective societies based on the vacancies available and all of them have put in decades of service.

3. It would be more appropriate to trace the brief history involved in the present batch of Writ Petitio