JUDGMENT

Brijesh Kumar, J.-Leave granted in Special Leave Petitions 7834 and 12370-371 of 2002.

2. The common point which arises for consideration in all the above noted bunch of cases is as to whether a person belonging to a Scheduled Caste in relation to a particular State would be entitled to or not, for the benefits or concessions allowed to Scheduled Caste candidates, in the matter of employment, in any Union Territory where such person has migrated from the other State. Some persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes in relation to the State of Tamil Nadu migrated to the Union Territory of Pondicherry and on the basis of certain notifications issued by the Government of India, as also the Union Territory of Pondicherry the benefit of reservation was made available to them and such persons thus got employment in the Union Territory of Pondicherry. The Central Administrative Tribunal, Bench at Madras, set aside such appointments/promotions with a direction to review the selection in regard to the reserved quota excluding the migrated Scheduled Caste candidates from consideration. In some matters where the petitions were filed in the High Court challenging the order of the Centra