COMMON JUDGMENT

These batch of writ petitions are filed to quash Ext.P-

5 notification and to declare that the petitioners are entitled to continue in their present occupation until they are replaced by permanent employees, through a valid recruitment process.

2. As the pleadings, points and reliefs sought in these six writ petitions are substantially similar in nature, common questions of law are involved, and the respondents are the same, the writ petitions were jointly heard, and they are being disposed of by this common judgment. For the sake of convenience, W.P (C) No.12799 of 2020 is treated as the leading case.

3. The case of the petitioners is that they are sub-

staff in the Divisional office and the Branch Offices under the Kozhikode Division of the first respondent ― Life Insurance Corporation of India (for brevity hereinafter referred to as "Corporation)." They have been working on a temporary basis since 2009-2012 till date. The petitioners are aggrieved by the action of the respondents in trying to replace them with outsourced temporary employees. The respondents are trying to terminate the services of the petitioners by resorting to arbitrary and illegal methods. The Corpo