(Per GADa Raghuram, J.)

Heard the learned Advocate General, instructed by the learned Government Pleader for the General Administration for the State; Sri P.Ashok Gaud, the learned Assistant Solicitor General for the Union; Sri J .Sudheer, the learned counsel for Sri S.S.P.Yadav; and Sri P.Venugopal the learned counsel instructed by Sri H.Srinivas the learned counsel for Sri R.R. Girish Kumar, in the several writ petitions.

2. Three (3) Directors General of Police of the Andhra Pradesh IPS GADre, competing to head the Police force in the State, in the post of Director General of Police, Head of Police Force [DGP(HoPF)], has led to these writ petitions arising out of a common order of the learned Central Administrative Tribunal, Hyderabad Bench (for short 'the Tribunal'), dated 28-01-2010 in O.ANos. 944 and 999 of 2009.

3. The State has filed W.P.Nos. 2257 and 2880 of 2010 aggrieved by the order of the Tribunal in O.A. Nos. 944 and 999 of 2009; Sri R.R. Girish Kumar, IPS, the 3rd respondent in O.ANo. 944 of 2009 filed W.P.No. 2337 of 2010 against the order of the Tribunal in the O.A; Sri S.S.P. Yadav, IPS, the applicant in O.ANo. 944 of 2009, instituted W.P.No. 5225 of 2010 agains