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JUDGMENT

REPORTABLE

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION

CIVIL APPEAL NO.4809 OF 2014

(ARISING OUT OF SLP(C) 266 OF 2012)

STATE OF JHARKHAND & ORS. ……APPELLANTS

VS.

KAMAL PRASAD & ORS.

………RESPONDENTS

With

CIVIL APPEAL NO.4837 OF 2014

(ARISING OUT OF SLP(C) NO. 21936 of 2013)

CIVIL APPEAL NO.4810 OF 2014

(ARISING OUT OF SLP(C) NO. 34437 of 2012)

CIVIL APPEAL NO.4811 OF 2014

(ARISING OUT OF SLP(C) NO. 36515 of 2012)

CIVIL APPEAL NO.4812 OF 2014

(ARISING OUT OF SLP(C) NO. 37628 of 2012)

CIVIL APPEAL NO.4813 OF 2014

(ARISING OUT OF SLP(C) NO. 37701 of 2012)

CIVIL APPEAL NO.4814 OF 2014

(ARISING OUT OF SLP(C) NO. 37702 of 2012)

CIVIL APPEAL NO.4815 OF 2014

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(ARISING OUT OF SLP(C) NO. 37740 of 2012)

CIVIL APPEAL NO.4816 OF 2014

(ARISING OUT OF SLP(C) NO. 37819 of 2012)

CIVIL APPEAL NO.4817 OF 2014

(ARISING OUT OF SLP(C) NO. 37834 of 2012)

CIVIL APPEAL NO.4818 OF 2014

(ARISING OUT OF SLP(C) NO. 37850 of 2012)

CIVIL APPEAL NO.4819 OF 2014

(ARISING OUT OF SLP(C) NO. 37864 of 2012)

CIVIL APPEAL NO.4820 OF 2014

(ARISING OUT OF SLP(C) NO. 37930 of 2012)

CIVIL APPEAL NO.4821 OF 2014

(ARISING OUT OF SLP(C) NO. 37952 of 2012)

CIVIL APPEAL NO.4822 OF 2014

(ARISING OUT OF SLP(C) NO. 37981 of 2012)

CIVIL APPEAL NO.4823 OF 2014

(ARISING OUT OF SLP(C) NO. 38012 of 2012)

CIVIL APPEAL NO.4824 OF 2014

(ARISING OUT OF SLP(C) NO. 38039 of 2012)

CIVIL APPEAL NO.4825 OF 2014

(ARISING OUT OF SLP(C) NO. 38044 of 2012)

CIVIL APPEAL NO.4826 OF 2014

(ARISING OUT OF SLP(C) NO. 38053 of 2012)

CIVIL APPEAL NO.4827 OF 2014

(ARISING OUT OF SLP(C) NO. 38224 of 2012)

CIVIL APPEAL NO.4828 OF 2014

(ARISING OUT OF SLP(C) NO. 38237 of 2012)

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CIVIL APPEAL NO.4829 OF 2014

(ARISING OUT OF SLP(C) NO. 38242 of 2012)

CIVIL APPEAL NO.4830 OF 2014

(ARISING OUT OF SLP(C) NO. 38267 of 2012)

CIVIL APPEAL NO.4831 OF 2014

(ARISING OUT OF SLP(C) NO. 38323 of 2012)

CIVIL APPEAL NO.4832 OF 2014

(ARISING OUT OF SLP(C) NO. 38341 of 2012)

CIVIL APPEAL NO.4833 OF 2014

(ARISING OUT OF SLP(C) NO. 38404 of 2012)

CIVIL APPEAL NO.4834 OF 2014

(ARISING OUT OF SLP(C) NO. 38408 of 2012)

CIVIL APPEAL NO.4835 OF 2014

(ARISING OUT OF SLP(C) NO. 39206 of 2012)

AND

CIVIL APPEAL NO.4836 OF 2014

(ARISING OUT OF SLP(C) NO. 93 of 2013)

J U D G M E N T

V. GOPALA GOWDA, J.

Leave granted in all the Special Leave Petitions.

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2.

These Civil Appeals are filed by the appellant-

State of Jharkhand questioning the legality of the

impugned judgment and order dated 08.11.2011 passed by

the High Court of Jharkhand in Letters Patent Appeal

No. 256 of 2011 and connected cases which allowed the

appeals of the respondent-writ petitioners by setting

aside the judgment dated 25.07.2011 passed by the

learned single Judge whereby the writ petitions of the

respondent-employees

were

dismissed

and

the

Interlocutory Application No. 3223 of 2011 was allowed

after quashing the show cause notices issued and orders

of termination of services of the respondent-employees.

The Division Bench of the High Court by framing certain

substantial questions of law has held that the

respondents herein shall be entitled to all the

consequential benefits. The appellants being aggrieved

of the impugned judgment and orders have filed these

Civil Appeals by urging various facts and legal grounds

in support of the same and prayed to set aside the

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impugned judgment and orders by allowing the Civil

Appeals.

3.

Certain relevant facts are stated for the purpose

of appreciating the rival legal contentions urged