Akil Kureshi, J.—These petitions have been filed by the Gujarat University challenging a common judgment and order dated 04.11.1999 passed by the Gujarat Universities Services Tribunal (‘Tribunal’ for short) in Applications No. 38 of 1999 and 39 of 1999.

2. The brief facts may be noted at the out set:—

1. Two sets of employees of the University, who are respondents in this petition had filed two separate applications being Application Nos. 38 of 1999 and 39 of 1999 before the Tribunal. These respondents belongs to the cadre of Typist. Their case in their applications before the Tribunal was that as per the Rules of the University, they were eligible for being considered for promotion for the post of Senior Clerk alongwith other employees of the University, belonging to other cadres which together formed feeder cadre for promotion to the post of Senior Clerk. Since the University was not considering them eligible for promotion to the post, the respondents filed above mentioned applications before the Tribunal. In the application, they prayed for direction to consider their cases for promotion on the basis of their seniority. They also prayed for permanent injunction against pr