ASHOK BHUSHAN, J.

1. All these Writ Appeals have been filed against the common judgment dated 12.11.2014 delivered by a learned Single Judge in W.P(C) No.2241 of 2012 and other connected Writ Petitions. All the Writ Petitions have been allowed by the learned Single Judge, aggrieved by which judgment respondents to the Writ Petitions have come up in these Writ Appeals.

2. The Writ Appeals can be divided into three groups: The first group consists of Writ Appeal Nos.1 and 2 of 2015 filed by the Kerala Forest Research Institute (for short, ‘the K.F.R.I.”) which Institute was the 3rd respondent in W.P(C) No.2241 of 2012 and W.P(C) No.25584 of 2011. The second group consists of W.A. Nos.4, 5, 7, 10, 21, 32 of 2015 and 1992 of 2014 filed by the Kerala State Council for Science and Technology and Environment and others. The third group consists of the Writ Appeals filed by the State being W.A. Nos.1313, 1526, 1578, 1628, 1651 and 1755 of 2015 challenging the same judgment. By the judgment dated 12.11.2014, Writ Petition Nos.2241 of 2012, 25584 of 2011, 26114 of 2011, 27835 of