(1.) Heard Sri Anoop Trivedi, learned Additional Advocate General assisted by Sri Ratan Deep Mishra for the State-appellants and Sri Ravindra Singh and Sri Kauntey Singh, learned counsels for the respondents-petitioners.
(2.) The present Special Appeal along with other connected appeals arise out of the same controversy and as the facts and controversy are the same, they are being decided by a common judgment. For the purpose of deciding these appeals, the facts of Special Appeal No.191 of 2026 (State of U.P. and 32 others Vs. Sakshi and 77 others) are being treated as the leading case.
(3.) In all the connected Special Appeals the appellants have asked for the following reliefs: