Judgment :

1. Leave granted.

2. Heard learned counsel for the parties at length.

3. This appeal by Special Leave is directed against an interim order dated 23rd of October, 2008, passed by a Division Bench of the High Court of Allahabad at Lucknow Bench at Lucknow in a special appeal being SLP (C) 75 of 2009, affirming an interim order passed by a learned Single Judge of the High Court in a writ petition being W.P. No. 6516 (S/S) of 2008.

A writ application has been filed by the respondents challenging the orders of termination of their service before the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad at Lucknow Bench at Lucknow. By an interim order, a learned Single Judge of the High Court had stayed the order of termination of the respondents. An appeal was carried by the State of UP against that interim order before a Division Bench of the High Court, which, however, affirmed the interim order passed by the learned Single Judge in the pending writ application but directed the learned Single Judge to dispose of the pending writ application at an early date.

Feeling aggrieved, the State of UP has filed this Special Leave Petition, which on grant of leave, was heard in presence of the learne