By the Court.—These seven petitions have been filed by petitioners assailing the impugned cancellation of their appointments as faculties to the posts of Professors/Associate/Assistant Professors under the impugned resolution of the Board of the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad contending that they are victims of unmixed disadvantage on account of a hasty decision which according to the petitioners is out of deference to the decisions taken during the tenure of the previous Director, and that their hopes were frustrated because of such a decision which is neither sustainable in law nor on facts. Their contention is that with the change of guard the respondent-Institute is reordering its priorities without following the correct position of law. The respondent-Institute through its present set of authorities defends itself by contending that selections were against rules and of ineligible candidates that was an outcome of the motivated influence exercised by the earlier Director to favour the petitioners and therefore the cancellation of such appointments was obvious and was after due deliberations without any premeditation of any malice or revenge. The d