JUDGMENT :

(Prayer in W.P.No.22670 of 2019: Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, to issue a Writ of Mandamus, directing the respondents to validate the answer sheet for Paper-III Main Written Examination conducted by Respondent Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission on 15.10.2017 and to consider the Petitioner for selection to the post of Deputy Collector by allowing him to undergo the process of selection including interview based on the marks secured by the Petitioner in the Main Written Examination, in pursuant to the Notification No.19/2016 dated 09.11.2016 issued by the 1st Respondent, within a time frame to be fixed by this Court.

W.P.No.113 of 2020: Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, to issue a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus, to call for the records relating to the impugned final selection list to the post of Deputy Collector in No. Nil dated 20.02.2019 issued by the 2nd respondent and to quash the same insofar as non-consideration of the petitioner for selection and consequently directing the respondents 1 to