K. Chandru, J.

The petitioner in all these seven writ petitions is the same person. He was working as Superintending Engineer, Public Works Department, Salem. He filed an Original Application being O.A. No.2463 of 2002 before the Tamil Nadu Administrative Tribunal [for short, TAT] seeking for a direction to the respondents to consider his case for inclusion of his name in the panel for Superintending Engineer fit for promotion as Chief Engineer for the year 1994-95 and also to promote him on par with his Junior ignoring the charge memos and disciplinary proceedings as illegal and arbitrary and pass appropriate orders.

2. The said Original Application was dismissed by an order dated 09.01.2003. In paragraph 8 of the order, it was stated as follows:

Para 8: ".... The applicant was punished with stoppage of increment for one year and this order was passed in December 1993. Therefore the applicant could not be considered for inclusion of his name in the panel for promotion because the punishment was in currency. The applicant seems to have not filed any application challenging the order of promotion. Subsequently also disciplinary proceedings have been initiated and they are