GAYUR HASAN Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) IN this bunch of writ petitions broadly there are three kinds of cases :

(2.) IT would be interesting to notice at this stage that in the third category of the writ petitions all the writ petitions have been filed by the persons who are or were holding political positions like Member of Legislative Assembly or Member of Parliament and some of them were also ministers or otherwise are high positioned political persons. Some of the writ petitions have been filed by the elected members of other local bodies, current or former, and some are liquor contractor or big businessman etc.

(3.) IN this background a Division Bench consisting of Hon'ble Imtiyaz Murtaza and Hon'ble Amar Saran, JJ., on 25.5.2006 passed a detailed order requiring the State of U. P. to submit a report indicating the number of persons who have been provided security in the last one year, the reasons for security given in each case, the period for which security was given, whether any payment has been taken for providing security, if required, under the Government order for one or more security personnel, the basis for providing additional security and whether there has been periodical reviews of the need for security by the committee as provided by the Government order etc.