Aftab Alam, J.

1. This Batch of appeals filed by the Bihar State Credit & Investment Corporation Limited (hereinafter referred to as the Corporation) is directed against the common judgment and order dated 14.1.2003 passed by a learned Single Judge of this Court by which a set of sixteen (16) writ petitions filed by the respondents were allowed holding that the appointment of the Assistant Law Officer of the Corporation as Certificate Officer for recovery of its loans was bad and illegal. Those writ petitions were filed by different borrowers of the Corporation. They were badly in default in repayment of their loans. For recovery of its loan amounts, therefore, the Corporation had instituted proceedings against them under the Bihar Public Demands Recovery Act. The writ petitioners assailed the proceedings of the respective certificate cases before this court on a number of grounds, including violation of procedural safeguards. But in all writ petitions there was a common ground that raised a jurisdictional issue. All the writ petitions questioned the appointment of Mr. O.P. Singh, Assistant Law Officer (referred to as the Law Officer in the judgment under appeal) of the Cor