(1.) HEARD Mr. V. K. Kohli, Senior Advocate, assisted by Mr. D. Barthwal, Advocate for the petitioners, Mr. K. P. Upadhyay, Addl. Chief Standing Counsel for the State of Uttarakhand/respondent No. 1 and Mr. Arvind Vashisth, Advocate, for the interveners.
(2.) SINCE controversy involved in all these writ petitions is common, these writ petitions are being decided by a common order.
(3.) A learned single Judge of this Court on 7th March, 2008 had passed an interim order in all these writ petitions and the operation of the order dated 19-2-2008 passed by the State Government as well as the subsequent publication dated 23-2-2008 (Annex-ure Nos. 1 and 2 to the writ petitions) was stayed.