ORDER :

1. In view of inter-connectivity of the issues involved, the suo motu criminal contempt petition and the criminal original petition are considered and decided by this common order.

2. For the sake of convenience and clarity, the parties in the instant cases will be referred to by their respective names.

3. From the maze of facts placed by the contesting parties, this Court distills and culls out the relevant facts as under:

3.1 The Tamil Nadu Uniformed Services Recruitment Board (for brevity “the Board”) is a body corporate having been constituted by the Government of Tamil Nadu under G.O.Ms. No. 1806, Home (Ser. F) Department dated 29.11.1991, for making recruitments to various posts in the Police Department.

3.2 The Board has a Chairman in the rank of a Director General of Police and a Member Secretary in the rank of an Inspector General of Police. The Board also has on its rolls, officials in the rank of Superintendents of Police, Additional Superintendents of Police and Inspectors of Police, apart from clerical staff, for conducting various examinations and interviews fo