This batch of writ petitions are filed impugning the similar, but separate, orders of the Karnataka State Administrative Tribunal (for short, ‘Tribunal’) in applications in Application Nos.11680/2016, 11679/2016 and 11667/2016 directing the Karnataka Examination Authority (for short, ‘KEA’) to include the names of the Applicants in these applications before the Tribunal (for short, ‘Applicants’) in the Final Selection List for the notified Posts of Assistant Professors in the Government First Grade Colleges in the respective subjects with further direction to the First Respondent to issue appointment Orders to the Applicants in terms of the Final Selection List forwarded by the KEA; and if these directions are given effect to, the private Respondents before the Tribunal (for short, ‘private Respondents’) will be excluded from the selection to the subject posts. Therefore, KEA has filed three writ petitions in W.P.No.44242/2017, W.P.No.47462/2017 and W.P.No.49066/2017 impugning the separate orders dated 28.07.2017 in Application Nos.11679/2016, 11680/2016 and 11667/2016, while the respective private Respondents have filed W.P.No.41886/2017 and W.P.No.8686/2018 impugning the o