(1.) Sri Ambika Ray, learned Counsel for the petitioners, Sri K.P.Upadhyay, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the State-respondent Nos. 1 and 2 and Smt. Farida Siddiqui, learned Counsel for the Union of India-respondent No. 3.
(2.) Since all these writ petitions have been filed with a common prayer and as the controversy involved in all the writ petitions is identical, therefore, for the sake of convenience, they are being decided by this common order.
(3.) All these eight writ petitions have been filed for the following reliefs: