These two writ petitions, SWP No. 1950/2003, Jeet Lal Gupta v. Union of India & Ors., and SWP No. 96/2004, M. Yamin Qureshi & another v. State of J&K & Ors., have been preferred against the common judgment and order dated 29th September, 2003, passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal, Chandigarh Bench, Chandigarh, (hereinafter referred to as "the Tribunal") in TA Nos.66-JK/2002 and 18-JK/2003, dismissing the above two TA petitions.

2. Briefly stated, the facts are that Jeet Lal Gupta, writ petitioner in SWP No. 1950/2003, acting on the news items appearing two newspapers, namely, Himalayan Mail and Kashmir Times in their issues dated Ist February, 2003 and 7th February, 2003 respectively, that Government of India was likely to induct State Civil Service Officers into Indian Administrative Service, filed writ petition, SWP No. 164/2003 before this Court. In that writ petition, the petitioner sought a restraint against the respondents prohibiting them from implementing the decision, if any, taken for making induction into the latest Indian Administrative Service Promotion quota vacancies. The challenge, ostensibly, was to the Select List of 2002 on the groun