(1.) These two appeals have been preferred against the order passed in W.P. No. 49741 of 2006, dated 4.10.2007, filed by the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Since both the appeals are inter-connected and the parties arrayed are one and the same, they were heard together and disposed of by this common judgment.
(2.) The brief facts leading to filing of the writ petition as well as the writ appeals are as follows:
(3.) The Tribunal answered the aforesaid issues in the following words: