Radhakrishnan, J.

Claims of over 30,000 police personnel, more than 300 writ appeals (equal number of writ petitions) nearly 500 crores of rupees and a mammoth re-doing exercise are the stakes involved in these and other related cases. Few appeals were filed with delay petitions and considering the larger public interest involved we have condoned the delay in all those cases, after directing the State to take out notice to respondents through paper publication.

2. Petitioners, many of them had retired long back, woke up from their slumber and have approached this court for treating the period of training under gone by them when they had entered service as duty for the purpose of salary, increments, pension etc. on the strength of a Division Bench Judgment of this Court in Lekshmanan v. State of Kerala, (1995 (1) KLT 115) and also the Government Order G.O. (Rt.) No.2081/04/Home dt. 20-9-2004. Writ petitions preferred by the petitioners were disposed of granting the relief’s as prayed for relying on Lekshmanan’s case. Aggrieved by the same the State Government have come up with these appeals.

3. Learned Advocate General appearing for the State submitted that Lekshmanan’s cas