1. All these writ petitions being WP (C) No. 1225/2016 [Sri. Gauranga Chandra Sarkar vs. State of Tripura and Others], WP (C) No. 1240/2016 [Sri. Kartik Sarkar vs. State of Tripura and Others] and WP (C) No. 170/2017 [Smt. Pratima Sarkar vs. State of Tripura and Others] are consolidated for disposal by common judgment for the reason that by the common final order dated 19.10.2016 under No. F.2-137(MTB-2)/SCW/GL/98 the State Level Scrutiny Committee (SLSC, for short) has cancelled the status certificates of the petitioners. Most importantly, all the petitioners are sons and daughter of Manoranjan Sarkar, since deceased and thus the petitioners are uterine brothers and sister. It would be apposite to note that in this regard there is no dispute. It is also not in dispute that the SLSC has conducted an inquiry initially by a Vigilance Officer and thereafter on affording purported reasonable opportunities to the petitioners the SLSC has passed the said final order by cancelling the status (SC) certificates of the petitioners on observing that the petitioners d