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ALOK ARADHE, N. V. SHRAVAN KUMAR
Estate Officer & A. P. D. , Airports Authority of India – Appellant
Versus
T. Satya Suguna Devi – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
(N.V. Shravan Kumar, J.)
Heard Mr. E.Madan Mohan Rao, learned Senior Counsel for the appellant.
Mr. M.V.Durga Prasad, learned counsel for the respondents in W.A. Nos.1052, 1055 and 1056 of 2010.
None for the remaining respondents.
2. The W.A. Nos.1052, 1053, 1054, 1055 and 1056 of 2010 have been filed against the common order dated 22.09.2009 passed in W.P. Nos.9083, 9584, 10391, 14417 and 20345 of 2001 by the learned Single Judge. The appellant herein is the Estate Officer & A.P.D., Airports Authority of India. The respondents in these appeals are the writ petitioners in the said writ petitions.
3. Since the common issues are involved in these intra court appeals between the parties they were heard together and are being decided by this common judgment.
4. For the facility of reference, facts from W.A. No.1055 of 2010 are being referred to as a lead matter.
5. For the sake of convenience, the parties hereinafter will be referred to as they were arrayed in the impugned common order dated 22.09.2009.
Facts of the case:
6. As in all the writ petitions, identical orders were questioned, the learned Single Judge had referred to the facts as narrated in W.P.No.14417 of 2001.
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