connected petitions filed by similarly situated employees a prayer was made for quashing the show cause notices of eviction served upon them being ultra virus and illegal and by a further prayer a writ of mandamus was sought to direct the State of Maharashtra to make permanent alternate accommodation available to the members of the association pursuant to the assurances given by the respondents in the said writ petition viz. State Government and Union of India. In brief, the case of the present petitioners filed through the association of allocated government servants bearing writ petition No.402/06 was that the petitioners are allocated government servants originally from ex-Madhya Pradesh and Hyderabad States who came to be posted and/or transferred from their home states to the then Bombay State under the States Recognition Act, 1956 and that the State Government and Union of India had assured the petitioners that the petitioners would be provided permanent alternate accommodation. Various contentions based on principles of legitimate expectation, promissory estoppel etc. were pressed in service before the Division Bench in Writ Petition No.402/06. The division bench rejecting the writ petition in para 6 of its judgment held thus:
