JUDGMENT

1. W.P.(C) No.794 of 2016 has been filed by the petitioners praying to set aside the notification dated 21.09.2016 with a further prayer to direct the respondents to regularize the services of the petitioners to the posts of driver as have been done in respect of other similarly situated incumbents.

2. W.P.(C) No.2 of 2017 has been filed by the petitioners [petitioners 3 and 2 in W.P. (C) No.794 of 2016] to set aside the impugned notification dated 29.11.2016 as the same is not sustainable and to direct the respondents to regularize the service of the petitioners as has been done in the cases of other similarly situated incumbents.

3. W.P.(C) No.61 of 2019 has been filed by the petitioners, who are similar to the petitioners in W.P.(C) Nos.794 of 2016 seeking a writ of mandamus directing the respondents to regularize the service of the petitioners to the post of drivers in the Department of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry, Government of Manipur.

4. Since the issue involved in all three writ petitions is one and the same, they are taken up together and disposed of by this common order.

5. The common case of the petitioners is that on 7.8.2010, a notification was issued for filli