M. Sathyanarayanan, J.

These writ appeals are preferred by the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board [in short "TNEB"], now the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Limited [in short "TANGEDCO"], aggrieved by the orders conferring Permanent Status by the 1st respondent/the Inspector of Labour, Karur, on the private respondents under the provisions of the Tamil Nadu Industrial Establishments [Conferment of Permanent Status to Workmen] Act, 1981 [in short "Conferment of Permanent Status to Workmen Act].

2. The facts leading to the filing of these writ appeals, briefly narrated, are as follows:-

WA (MD) No.339 of 2015:- [against WP (MD) No.2653 of 2013]

The appellants/the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board [TNEB] had filed the above said writ petition challenging the common order passed by the 1st respondent Inspector of Labour, Karur under the provisions of the above said Act, ordering conferment of permanent status on the private respondents.

(B) In the affidavit filed in support of the said writ petition, the Superintending Engineer, Karur Electricity Distribution Circle, Karur, would aver among other things that the private respondents have not worked directly under TNEB and t