JUDGMENT

Sanjeev Kumar, J

1. These intra-Court appeals, filed by the appellants–University authorities, are directed against a common order and judgment dated 04.07.2025 passed by the learned Single Judge of this Court [“Writ Court”] in WP(C) Nos. 322/2023, 731/2022, 612/2025, 665/2023, 129/2023, 321/2023, 3132/2023, 126/2024, 527/2025, 376/2024, 706/2023, 708/2023, 543/2025, 362/2023 & 209/2021 whereby the writ petitions filed by the respondents herein have been allowed. The writ Court, while allowing the writ petitions, has directed that the writ petitioners, the respondents herein, engaged on academic arrangement basis shall be allowed to continue till such time regular selection is made to the posts held by them, and has further restrained the appellants from replacing them by another set of contractual or ad hoc employees.

2. Briefly put, the facts leading to the filing of instant appeals are that the respondents were engaged on academic arrangement/contractual basis by the appellant–University for various teaching positions. Their engagements, initially made for specific academic sessions, were extended from time to time either by virtue of interim orders passed by this Court or