Jagannadha Rao, C J.

These two appeals raise the same question, and can be disposed of together,

2. W.A.No.233 of 1992 is an appeal preferred by respondents 4 and 5 in the Writ Petition against the judgment of the learned Single Judge in O.P.No. 79 of 1991-H, which is since reported as P.V. Vijayalakshmikutty v. State of Kerala and ors. 1992(1) KLT SN11, P.9 =1992 (1) KLJ 56. The writ petitioner therein is the first respondent in the appeal. The writ petition was allowed by the learned Single Judge by judgment dated 11-12-1991. The writ petitioner was originally appointed as a Lower Grade Hindi Teacher in the Saraswathi Vilasam U.P. School, Kondazhy in a temporary vacancy for the period from 10-6-1980 to 11-8-1980. That appointment was duly approved by the Assistant Educational Officer concerned. She was again appointed in a leave vacancy from 5-9-1980 to 28-11-1980, which was also approved There after, when a vacancy arose in the same post between 10-1-1989 to 22-3-1989, the manager did not appoint anybody. In a subsequent temporary vacancy for the period from 3-7-1989 to 1-9-1989, the fifth' respondent in the writ petition (second appellant) was appointed. The petitione