JUDGMENT

CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION: Civil Appeal Nos. 185-187 of 1993.

From the Judgment and Order dated 5.8.1991 of the Orissa Ad- ministrative Tribunal, Bhubaneshwar in O.A. No. 679 of 1988.

B.A. Mohanty, A Mariarputham, Mrs. Aruna Mathur, Raju Rama- chandran and A.K. Panda for the Appellants.

Shanti Bhushan, Prashant Bhushan, P.N. Misra, P. Gour, R.P. Wadhwani and C.N. Sreekumar for the Respondents.

The Judgment of the Court was delivered by

MOHAN, J.—Leave granted in all the matters.

All these appeals can be dealt with under a common judgment since they are directed against the judgment and order dated August 5, 1991 passed by the Orissa Administrative Tribunal Bhubaneshwar in Original Application No. 679 of 1988. Prakash Chandra Misra (Respondent 1 in all these appeals) was directly recruited to the Orissa State Forest Service Class 11 by the Orissa Public Service Commission in the year 1979. After completion of training for two years at Forest Service College, Burnihat, Assam he was appointed as an Assistant Conservator of Forests. He moved the Administrative Tribunal challenging the seniority of the Forest Rangers who were members of Orissa Subordinate Forest Service and were p