COMMON JUDGMENT: (Per Hon’ble Sri Justice Battu Devanand)

All the writ appeals have been filed against the orders passed by the learned single Judges of this Court on different dates in different writ petitions. But, the issue involved in all the writ appeals is one and the same. In all the writ appeals preferred by the State, there is delay in filing the writ appeals and seeking to condone the delay, Interlocutory Applications have been filed.

2. The delay in filing each appeal extracted as herein under:

3. The parties in these Appeals will be referred to as they are arrayed in the Writ Petitions for convenience.

4. The issue involved in these cases is pertaining to the recruitment of 2,324 posts of Multi Purpose Health Assistants (Male) [for short “MPHAs (Male)”] in the combined State of Andhra Pradesh which were notified on 20.07.2002. After several rounds of litigation from erstwhile Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunal at Hyderabad to the Hon‟ble Apex Court, this issue had not attained finality.

5. On 20.07.2002, the erstwhile Government of Andhra Pradesh issued a notification for recruitment of 2,324 posts of MPHAs (Male) in all the districts in the erstwhile State of Andhra Pra