(1.) Heard Sri Ajeet Kumar Singh, learned Additional Advocate General assisted by Sri Pankaj Kumar Rai, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel and Sri Amit Verma, learned Standing Counsel for the respondents-appellants and Sri Yogesh Kumar Saxena, learned counsel for the respondents-petitioners.
(2.) Present intra-court appeal has been filed against the order of the learned single judge dtd. 12/3/2018 passed in Writ-A No. 33526 of 2016 (Shiv Jag Sharma and 9 others Vs. State of U.P. and others).
(3.) By that order, the learned single judge has allowed the writ petition, following the earlier decision of a Division Bench of this Court in Special Appeal (Defective) No. 773 of 2016 (State of U.P. and 4 others Vs. Gorakh Nath Pandey and 15 others), arising from an order of the another learned single judge dtd. 12/4/2016 in Writ-A No. 61107 of 2013 (Gorakh Nath Pandey and 15 others Vs. State of U.P. and 4 others).