JUDGMENT :

C.T. RAVIKUMAR, J.

1. The third respondent in O.A.(Ekm.)No.367 of 2015 viz., the Kerala Public Service Commission (for brevity `PSC' only) filed O.P. (KAT)No.442 of 2017 against the order passed thereon by the Kerala Administrative Tribunal. O.P.(KAT)No.317 of 2018 is filed by the applicants in O.A.No.435 of 2018 against the order passed thereon by the same Tribunal. Whether the PSC is empowered to give credit for academic marks and make it as `basis of marking' along with the marks secured in the written test/OMR Test and in the interview in a selection for teaching posts and allied questions crop up for consideration, in the captioned Original Petitions. The posts concerned are Higher Secondary School Teacher (Mathematics) (Senior) and Higher Secondary School Teacher (Junior), in different subjects, in the Higher Secondary Education Department. As per the order in O.A.(Ekm.)No.367 of 2015 the Tribunal directed the PSC viz., the 3rd respondent therein to revise the ranked list concerned viz., Annexure-A2 therein by excluding the grace marks granted for the marks scored in the qualifying examination. Review of advice and appointment based on the revised rank list, followin