Huluvadi G. Ramesh, J.

These appeals are directed against the order dated 8th July, 2013, passed by the learned single Judge, in and by which the learned single Judge, on the prima facie finding and in view of the larger public interest involved, while taking into account the huge loss to the exchequer due to the vast difference in the amounts quoted by the various parties and the rate at which the contract had been awarded, had granted an interim order of stay of all further proceedings, aggrieved by which the respective respondents are before this Court by filing the writ appeals assailing the said order.

2. Against the said interim order, while the respective respondents therein had filed the present appeals, this Court, on 19.11.2013, after hearing the learned counsel appearing for the appellants felt that since the matter touches upon the merits of the main writ petitions itself, it would be prudent to tag the writ petitions along with these writ appeals and dispose of the same as that would give a quietus to the matter, to which course of action, the learned counsel on either side did not have any objection. Therefore, the writ petitions on the file of the learned sin