( 1 ) THE above two matters were heard together at length on the point o\ admission and all the points in controversy having been agitated and argued, the matters are being finally disposed by this judgment.

( 2 ) JAI Ram Singh, the petitioner in both the said petitioners, had been working as store keeper in banda Central Consumer Co-operative Stores Ltd. which is said to be a Central Co-operative, and, according to the petitioner, his service conditions are governed by the provisions of the U. P. Co-operative Societies Employees" Service Regulations, 1975. The employers in further lines of this judgment would be described as the consumer stores and the Regulations relied upon by the petitioner would be referred in short as the "regulations of 1975". The respondents had taken an objection in these petitions that the law applicable to the service conditions of the petitioner are those contained in the set of Rules framed in 1979 and the same would be described as the "rules of 1979" in further lines of this judgment.

( 3 ) IN the first mentioned writ petition, an order dated 1-5-1996 recorded by the President of the co-operative Stores was challenged end through th