JUDGMENT :

1. The aforementioned two writ petitions have been filed by a daily wage worker engaged as Class-IV employee (Mali) in the Social Forestry Department, Siddharth Nagar. The orders dated 04.06.2019 and 04.08.2020 passed by the Divisional Director, Social Forestry Department, District-Siddharth Nagar are subject matter of challenge, separately in the above writ petitions.

2. It is the case of the petitioner that he was initially engaged in the year 1995 as a Class-IV employee in different units of Khesaraha Range of the Forest Department in District Siddharth Nagar. Since his initial engagement, the petitioner had been continuously working as daily wager without any complaint. For some period in the interregnum he had not been engaged but the said period has to be treated as artificial break, inasmuch as, the petitioner had continuously been engaged for the need/requirement of the department from 1995 till the date of termination of his services by the impugned order dated 04.08.2020 and had been discharging the duties of Mali in the Social Forestry Department on daily wage basis.

3. When the claim of the petitioner for regularisation under the prevalent rules in the Departmen