JUDGMENT :

ASHOK BHUSHAN, J.

These three appeals have been filed questioning the common judgment of High Court of Allahabad dated 09.05.2019 delivered by a Division Bench in Special Appeal No.585 of 2018 – Deepak Sharma and 05 Ors. Vs. State of U.P. with several other special appeals. By the impugned judgment, the Division Bench of the High Court has allowed the appeal setting aside the judgment of a learned Single Judge dated 07.10.2017 delivered in batch of writ petitions led by Writ Petition No. 41750 of 2015 – Prashant Kumar Jaiswal and 12 Others Vs. State of U.P. and 10 Others and dismissing all the writ petitions.

2. For deciding these appeals, it shall be sufficient to notice the facts and questions of law as arising in Civil Appeal No.9026 of 2019 – Mukul Kumar Tyagi Vs. The State of Uttar Pradesh And Ors., which is being treated as lead appeal. The learned Single Judge by judgment dated 07.10.2017 has decided the batch of writ petitions led by Writ Petition No.41750 of 2015 – Prashant Kumar Jaiswal and 12 Others Vs. State of U.P. and 10 Others, which judgment was subject matter of challenge in the Special Appeal No. 585 of 2018 and other appeals in which impugned judgment has