1 Rule. Rule made returnable forthwith and heard finally by the consent of the parties.

2 The Petitioners in all these petitions were the employees of Respondent No.2/ Institution and were working with Respondent No.3/ College till their termination dated 17.04.2012 communicated to them on 21.04.2012. The Petitioners are identically placed and the Respondents in all these petitions are the same.

3 The Petitioners are said to have been terminated by the order dated 17.04.2012 which was communicated to them by the Institution on 21.04.2012. These Petitioners approached the Division Bench of this Court in Writ Petition Nos.4305/2012, 4307/2012 and 6672/2012. By order dated 30.10.2012, this Court disposed of the petitions by observing that the Petitioners have an alternate statutory remedy of approaching the University and College Tribunal (for short, hereinafter referred to as “Tribunal”). All the issues were kept open.

4 The Petitioners filed their Appeals before the Tribunal on 05.02.2013 along with the applications for condonation of delay. It was stated that the delay was of about 259 days. By the impugned order dated 03.08.2015, all Miscellaneous Application Nos.1/2013 to