JUDGMENT

Dated this the 5 th day of July , 202 2 .

Though the individual reliefs sought for in these writ petitions may be different, in its nuances, and ambit, the essential legal questions are common. I, therefore propose to dispose them of through this judgment.

2. The petitioners in these cases seek various reliefs against the Mahatma Gandhi University (“M.G.University” for short) on the assertion that the same have been afforded to various other persons by it, who were similarly, if not identically, situated; and thus arguing that they have been hostilely discriminated in having been denied the same.

3. Sri.V.Varghese – learned counsel for the petitioners in four of the afore cases and Sri.C.V.Alexander – learned counsel for the petitioner in W.P(C).No.28869 of 2016, argued that the issues impelled in this case are no longer res integra, it having been declared afÏrmatively in favour of their clients by a learned Division Bench of this Court in Writ Appeal No. 2394 of 2018 and connected matters. They further asserted that this judgment has been upheld by the Hon’ble Supreme Court in SLP No. 6378 of 2020 and connected matters and that they have been declared “to be permanent empl