JUDGMENT

R.R.K. Trivedi, J. - Petitioners in all the aforesaid writ petitions are employees of District Co-operative Bank Limited, Fatehpur. They were employed on different dates and on different posts on daily wages or on ad-hoc basis as stop gap arrangements. However, services of Petitioners have been terminated on different dates in the year 1989. In all the writ petitions the questions of law and facts for determination are identical and all these petitions can be disposed of by a common judgment. Writ Petition No. 21438 of 1989 shall be the leading case.

2. The main grievance of the Petitioners is that they were employed by District Co-operative Bank Limited, Fatehpur (hereinafter referred to as the Bank) on ad-hoc basis. Though appointments were made for short spells of 89 days but they have served continuously without any break upto the date of termination. Their claim is thit they have worked for long time and they became entitled in law to be regularised on their posts but the respondents illegally terminated Petitioners from service in gross violation of law.

3. I have heard Sri K.P. Agarwal, learned Counsel for petitioners, and Shri A. Kumar alone with Shri H.R. Misra, coun