Hon’ble Ashok Bhushan, J.—These appeal raise similar issues and have been heard together. Special Appeal No. 1034 (defective) of 2009 (State of U.P. and others v. Sunil Kumar Verma and others) has been treated as leading appeal in which submissions in detail have been addressed by the learned counsel for the parties.

2. Special Appeal No. 1034 (defective) of 2009 has been filed by the State of U.P. challenging the judgment and order of learned Single Judge dated 4th February, 2009 by which order the writ petition filed by respondent Nos. 1 to 9 (Sunil Kumar Verma and 8 others), retrenched employees of the U.P. State Cement Corporation, praying for quashing the order dated 24th May, 2006 by which their claim for absorption in a Government department was rejected, has been allowed. The writ petitioners in the writ petition had further prayed for a direction to absorb them in accordance with the Uttar Pradesh Absorption of Retrenched Employees of the State Government or Public Corporation in Government Service Rules, 1991 (hereinafter referred to as the 1991 Rules). The writ petition was allowed by the learned Single Judge quashing the order whereby the claim of the writ petit