1 J&K State Service Selection Board, Jammu started process for recruitment of teachers in various schools of Kathua district by issuing advertisement notice No;2 of 1987 on January 2, 1987, inviting applications on prescribed forms from permanent residents of the State. In all 4804 candidates applied for the posts who were interviewed at various places of that district during December 1988. Selection letters were issued to 560 candidates in September, 1989 out of which 39 ware trained post-graduates, 104 post graduates, 55 trained graduates, 272 graduates, 43 under graduates, one trained matriculate and 39 matriculates. Thereafter a bunch of writ petitions were filed by the non-selected candidates which were heard by the learned Single Judge of this court who by a common judgment dated October 11,1990 quashed the appointments of selected candidates and directed official respondents in those cases to fill up vacancies of teachers in that district afresh. Aggrieved by that judgment selected teachers who are working in various schools of Kathua district have filed abovesaid Letters Patent Appeal. As common questions of Law and fact are involved in all these appeals, we al