Judgment

S.B. Sinha, J.—The jurisdiction of the High Court to issue a direction for framing a scheme for regularisation of the employees of the U.P. State Agricultural Produce Market Board (for short “the Board”) is in question in this batch of appeals which arise out of judgments and orders passed by the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad in the writ petitions filed by the private respondents either dismissing or allowing the same.

ACT

2. The legislature of the State of Uttar Pradesh enacted The Uttar Pradesh Krishi Utpadan Mandi Adhiniyam, 1964 (for short “the Act”). The Board has been established under Section 26-A of the Act. Section 26-B provides for the constitution of the Board. In exercise of its power conferred upon it by Section 25-A and 26-X of the Act, regulations have also been framed by the Board laying down the terms and conditions of the service of the employees of the Market Committees known as the Uttar Pradesh Agricultural Produce Market Committees (Centralised) Services Regulations, 1984 (for short “Services Regulations”). Similar regulations have also been framed by the Board in respect of its own employees being the Uttar Pradesh Agricultural Produce Markets B