- (1.) Heard Sri Seemant Singh, learned counsel for the petitioners, learned Advocate General assisted by Sri C.S. Singh, Additional Chief Standing Counsel, Sri U.P. Singh learned Standing Counsel for the State respondents, Sri P.N. Saxena, Senior Advocate assisted by Sri Vinod Kumar, Sri Manish Goel, Sri Anoop Trivedi and Sri Rahul Srivastava, Advocates appearing for the private respondents.
(2.) The connected writ petitions are based on identical facts and law, therefore, on the consent of the parties, the petitions are being decided together.
(3.) The facts of petition, being Writ Petition No. 37599 of 2015 (Ashish Kumar Pandey and others Versus State of U.P. and others), is being considered to determine the controversy.;