JUDGMENT

Sharad Kumar Sharma, J. - In all these writ petitions, the petitioners are the persons, who are claiming a writ of mandamus, whereby they have prayed for commanding the respondents for regularizing their services, as a consequence of their appointment which was under the U.P. Recruitment of Dependants of Government Servant Dying in Harness Rules, 1974, though on a daily wage basis, which is contrary to the rules, and as per the law laid down by the Courts, in that regard.

2. Since all these writ petitions engage a common question of facts and law, hence for the purposes of brevity, with the consent for the counsel for the parties, they are being decided together. Short facts which are being dealt with in respect of each case are as follows:-

(A) In Writ Petition No.640 of 2021, "Rakesh Singh Vs. State of Uttarakhand & others", the petitioner had come up with the case, that his father, who was appointed with the respondents as a daily wager i.e. with the PWD, Dugadda, Pauri Garhwal, was later his services were put into a work charge establishment on 26.11.1988, and while discharging his services, in the work charge establishment, he met with the sad demise on 22.07.2009, afte