HASNAIN AHMAD Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) PALOK Basu, J. If the proverb "facts are sometimes stranger than fiction" ever requires proof, one might look to the facts in this bunch of litigation categorised as "registration-Clerks-Bunch''-The fantastic truth is that almost all the persons who have filed writ petitions have obtained interim orders on the strength of which they continue to work in the Registration Department in various districts even though none of them was an "ad hoc" employee and none of them had worked even as 'casual-labour' for two hundred and forty days continuously in any calendar year and most distressing being that several of them have not worked at all even a 'daily-wager'.

(2.) IN this Bunch there are four different matters which includes several writ petitions filed at Lucknow Bench of this Court which were summoned for being heard along with similar matters filed in this Court and all connected were directed to be listed for final disposal, it may be noted that the ex pression 'petitioners' hereinafter includes petitioners in all the writ petitions even if they are appellants or respondents in the Special Appeals arising out of orders in those petitions and the expression 'state9 hereinafter includes the State of Uttar Pradesh, the INspector General of Registration or the District Registrars (Registration) of the district, as the case may be.

(3.) THE second matter consists of Special Appeals against final orders passed by learned Single Judges in some writ petitions with similar prayers as mentioned above. Since in those writ petitions affidavits had been exchanged between the parties, writ petitions have been placed and seen along with the Special Appeals.