HULUVADI G.RAMESH, Dr. G.JAYACHANDRAN, JJ.

1. The vexed question of identifying Creamy Layer among the other backward community for reservation in employment is agitated before this Court in these writ petitions.

2. All these three writ petitions are preferred by the Union of India aggrieved by the common judgment passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal dated 12.01.2017.

3. The brief facts of the case in W.P.Nos.6387 and 6388 of 2017 is as follows:

Mr. Rohith Nathan the first respondent herein is the successful applicant in O.A.Nos.1132 and 1133 of 2014 before the Tribunal. His case is that, his father Mr. Rajagopalan is an employee of M/s HCL Technologies Limited. He is designated as Head Retail Practice in grade E5. He applied for Civil Service Examination under Other Backward Classes (in short “OBC”) quota and got himself qualified in the year 2012 and ranked 174. Since he applied under OBC quota, he has furnished a certificate obtained from M/s HCL Technologies Limited to the effect that his father entered grade E5 from 05.01.2004 onwards at the age of 45 years a