N. Kumar, J.—As a common question of law is involved in all these writ petitions, they are taken up for consideration together and disposed of by this common order. The 1st respondent-State of Karnataka issued a notification dated 3-11-1997 to fill up 33 posts of Commercial Tax Officers (CTOs) and 25 posts of Assistant Commissioner of Commercial Taxes (ACCTs). Accordingly, the Karnataka Public Service Commission issued a notification on 9-3-1998 calling applications from eligible candidates. The KPSC after completing the selection process published a provisional selection list of candidates on 28-9-2001. After publication of the said list, some of the candidates, who had taken the examination filed application before the Tribunal alleging certain irregularities in the valuation of answer scripts and prayed for a direction to the KPSC to revalue the answer scripts. The said application was allowed. The same was challenged before this Court. This Court also directed random review of answer scripts. The same was challenged before the Apex Court. The Apex Court upheld the order of the High Court. It is after all these process the final selected list was published on 28-2-2006 and