S. D. Agarwala, C. J.

1. This judgment will also dispose of Letters Patent Appeal No.820 of 1992, Civil Writ Petitions Nos.13106, 14160 and 14161 of 1991, and Civil Writ Petition No.6385 of 1992, as common question of law is involved therein and all these cases were heard together. For facility of reference, facts have been taken from Letters Patent Appeal No.822 of 1992.

2. The appellant is Haryana Land Reclamation and Development Corporation Limited hereinafter to be referred as "the Corporation") having its registered office at Chandigarh. Its main object is to undertake, assist, aid, finance, execute and promote measures for land development, conservation and improvement of soil and water resources. Pawan Kumar, respondent, was appointed as a clerk-cum-typist in the above Corporation on March 31, 1989, on ad hoc basis. His case is that he was retrenched by an order dated July 18, 1991. He filed a writ petition challenging the order of retrenchment on the ground that he had completed more than two years and in any case more than 240 days in the preceding twelve calendar months when the impugned order of retrenchment was passed. The retrenchment order has been annexed as