1. The Indur District Cooperative Marketing Society Limited, Nizamabad, is the petitioner in W.P.Nos.35872 and 35879 of 2012 while the Karimnagar District Cooperative Marketing Society Limited, Karimnagar, is the petitioner in W.P.Nos.39497 and 39504 of 2012. M/s. Microplex (India) Limited, Hyderabad, is the first respondent in W.P.Nos.35872, 35879 and 39497 of 2012, and M/s. Nagarjuna Agroo Chemicals Private Limited, Hyderabad, is the first respondent in W.P.No.39504 of 2012. The second respondent in all the writ petitions is the Andhra Pradesh Micro & Small Enterprises Facilitation Council, Hyderabad, (for brevity, ‘the Council’).

2. W.P.Nos.35872 and 35879 of 2012 were filed challenging the individual orders dated 25.08.2012 passed by the Council in Case Nos.13/IFC/2011/126 and 13/IFC/2011/125 respectively and seeking writs of certiorari to quash the same as illegal and without jurisdiction.

3. W.P.Nos.38497 and 39504 of 2012 were filed seeking writs of prohibition directing the Council to forebear from proceeding with Case Nos.13/EFC/2011/120 and 13/EFC/2011/119 respectively by declaring that the claims therein did not fall within the ambit of the Micro, Small and Medium