Vidyut Mazdoor Sanghathan, Lucknow, filed Special Appeal No. 414 of 1996 challenging order dated 1-5- 1996 passed by learned Single Judge, in Civil Misc. Writ petition No. 15034 of 1996. By this order operation of the Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Parishad Parichalkiya Karam-chari Varg Sewa Niyamawali, 1995, was stayed during pendency of the writ petition.

2. Special Appeal No. 578 of 1996 was forced by U. P, Electricity Board against the order dated 1-5-1996 passed in the same writ petition. During hearing of Special Ap peal No. 414 of 1996 on 16- 7-1996, learned counsel for the parties agreed that the Spe cial appeal should be heard along with con nected bunch of writ petitions for final dis posal. Thus, in pursuance of the aforesaid order dated 16-7-1996, aforesaid two appeal and the entire hunch of writ petitions known as Meter Readers Bunch was listed before us for hearing and final decision. As the questions of law and facts involved in all these writ petitions are identical, the two appeals and all the writ petitions consisting of this bunch can be conveniently decided by a common judgment. Along with the special appeals, the three writ petitions, on which ar