ORDER :

C.A. No. 4502 of 2016 @ SLP(C) No. 7556 of 2014

Leave granted.

2. Application for impleadment is allowed.

3. The Civil Appeal is disposed of in terms of the order dated 26.4.2016 passed in SLP(C) No.28965/2014 and batch.

4. The said order shall hold good for this appeal as well.

C.A. NO. 4503 of 2016 @ SLP(C) No. 6953 of 2015

1. Leave granted.

2-3. This appeal is directed against the common judgment of the Division Bench dated 16.12.2013 in Writ Appeal No.2706 of 2009 which arose out of WP(C) No.31862 of 2008 along with other connected appeals.

4. The Division Bench affirmed the common judgment dated 6.10.2009 of the Learned Single Judge passed in WP(C) No.31862 of 2008 and other connected cases. In fact, appellant-Shaji T.L. was not a party either in the writ petition dealt with by the Learned Single Judge or in the writ appeal dealt with by the Division Bench. However, since he was affected by the impugned judgment, he was granted leave to move the special leave petition and that is how this appeal by way of special leave came to be entertained. When the appeal by way of special leave was pending, one Smt. C.P. Mrinalini, who claims to be identically placed like that of the appell