Factual background so far as undisputed is essentially as follows About 2000 persons were appointed as primary teachers in various districts of Bihar.
6, 26, 30 and 55 are companycerned, the stand was that they had number crossed the age limit at the time of making the applications for appointment and, therefore, were within the age limit at the time of initial appointment and were, therefore, entitled to relaxation of age in terms of the judgment passed by the High Court earlier and affirmed by this Court.
Orders were passed terminating the services of the teachers including the appellants who had been appointed during the relevant period.
These two appeals are directed against two judgments of the High Court of Patna.
Such orders of termination were challenged before the High Court, which by judgment dated 11.8.1989 directed to take up the appointment of teachers in elementary schools in various districts by inviting applications from the writ petitioners as well as other persons who had been removed because they were illegally recruited by the District Superintendent of Education.
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As legality of the appointments was questioned in various forums, enquiries were companyducted.
By order dated 7.2.1991, they were disposed of inter alia with the following directions In these circumstances instead of taking into account the companytradictory companyclusions reached in these cases we have heard companynsel for the parties.
While C.A. No.916/1999 is directed against the judgment dismissing the writ petition filed by 55 persons including the appellants, C.A. No.1524/1999 is directed against the judgment in Letters Patent Appeal whereby the order of the learned Single Judge was affirmed.
The basic issue is whether the appellants herein were legally recruited as teachers during the period from 1981 to 1983.
The writ petition was filed by the present appellants.
