ORDER :

(A.V. Sesha Sai, J.)

1. Third parties to O.A.Nos.12273 of 2010 and batch on the file of the Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunal are the petitioners in this batch of writ petitions. This Court deems it appropriate to treat W.P.No.11000 of 2013 as a lead case.

2. In W.P.No.11000 of 2013, challenge is to the order dated 24.11.2011, passed by the Tribunal, allowing O.A.No.12273 of 2010. Respondent No.3 in the writ petition, by invoking the provisions of Section 19 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985 (for short, ‘the Act’) filed O.A.No.12273 of 2010, seeking the following relief:

“Application filed under the section 19 of the Administrative Tribunal Act, 1985 praying this Tribunal to declare the action of the respondents in not considering the case of the applicant for promotion to the post Deputy Executive Engineer by fixing the seniority in the Cadre of Assistant Engineer by effecting promotion notionally to the said post as per the ratio fixed among the Direct Recruitees and Promotees for promotion to the post of Assistant Engineer prescribed in the Rules by taking into consideration of the Judgment passed by this Hon’ble Tribunal in O.A.Nos.1019 to 1023/1991 dated 02.