1. The unsuccessful review applicants in O.A. Nos. 202, 204, 221 and 222 of 2005 on the files of the Kerala Administrative Tribunal, who were not parties to those original applications, filed the above Original Petitions, raising similar grievances and seeking similar reliefs. The common challenge involved in these captioned Original Petitions is against the common order of the Tribunal for finalising the seniority list of Higher Secondary School Teachers (for short 'HSST') for the period from 13/06/2001 to 09/01/2005 in tune with the findings thereon. O.P.(KAT)No.51/2015 arising from O.A.No.202/2015 is taken as the lead case and the documents are referred to hereafter in this judgment in the order they are marked in the said O.P. unless otherwise specifically mentioned.

2. The Director of the Higher Secondary Education, a common respondent in all the original petitions, prepared a final list covering the period from 13/06/2001 to 09/01/2005 on 26/05/2014 and the extract of the same is produced as Annexure A2. On being aggrieved by the aforementioned select list certain teachers approached the Government by preferring representations in terms of the provisions under S.27B of Part II