JUDGMENT

Madan B. Lokur, J.

1. These writ petitions have been filed by some police personnel of Manipur Police under Article 32 of the Constitution of India. We havebeen given to understand that these petitions have the support of a few hundred officers from the Indian Army, the paramilitary forces and Manipur Police. These petitions are a fall-out of the decision rendered by us in Extra-Judicial Execution Victim Families Association v. Union of India, (2016) 14 SCC 536 and subsequent orders passed therein by way of a continuing mandamus. The prayer in the writ petitions is for an appropriate writ, order or direction for quashing certain oral observations said to have been made by us which, according to the petitioners, violate their rights guaranteed by Article 21 of the Constitution. Pending a decision in the writ petitions, it is prayed that we should not proceed with the continuing mandamus in the case.

2. Interlocutory applications have also been moved in these writ petitions specifically for a direction that we should recuse from hearing these writ petitions which shoul