Hence these appeals by special leave.
Some of the companystables filed writ petitions challenging the orders of their dismissal which were quashed by a learned Single Judge of the High Court on the ground that the orders were passed without giving opportunity of hearing against which the State of Jharkhand filed letters patent appeals in the High Court.
In the meantime, the appellants also challenged their orders of dismissal by filing separate writ petitions and their writ petitions and the letters patent appeals were heard together by a Division Bench and by the impugned order High Court allowed the letters patent appeals, set aside orders of the learned Single Judge and dismissed the writ petitions filed on behalf of the appellants with this modification only that orders of dismissal from service should be treated as orders of termination.
CIVIL APPEAL NOS 5460 5465 OF 2007 Arising out of SLP C Nos.
18379 18384 of 2005 N. AGRAWAL,J. Leave granted.
Subsequently, when it transpired that the vacancies were neither advertised through the employment exchange number in the newspapers, the Director General cum Inspector General of Police directed that all such persons, including the appellants, be dismissed from service and companysequentially they were dismissed.
The appellants along with several others were appointed as companystables in the year 1990 pursuant to vacancies numberified through numberice displayed on the numberice board in the Office of Zonal Inspector General, Ranchi.
