No Devyani its not allowed, if its being done then it amounts to spamming! As the moderators are not available all the time, such posts may have skipped notice, if you have across such replies, use the Report to Moderator button provided below the reply and will take care of them immediately.
Also right now if you could PM me the links of such posts, I will see what needs to be done.
There should not be more replies to a single topic. But if some one needs to add something in response to another member's comment, he may write more posts.
No this is not allowed but user are unaware about that they make a post for that because there is no sign given for the post that is replied by a user.