JUDGMENT

DIPANKAR DATTA, CJ - By a common judgment and order dated August 9, 2019, the Member (Judicial) of the Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal, Mumbai (hereinafter "the Tribunal ", for short) disposed of 12 (twelve) original applications. The common order of transfer assailed in such original applications by the original applicants were set aside, with a direction upon the respondents in the original applications to reinstate the original applicants on the posts they were transferred from within two weeks from that date. The respondents before the Tribunal (hereafter "the State ", for short) have questioned such common judgment and order in all these writ petitions.

2. The original applicants before the Tribunal being the respondents in the writ petitions (hereafter "original applicants ", for short) are police constables attached to the Police Commissionerate, Pune. At the material time, the original applicants were posted at the Social Security Cell of the Crime Branch of such Commissionerate. By an order dated May 31, 2019 issued by the Commissioner of Police, Pune, all the original applicants stood transferred to various police stations within the jurisdiction of the Police