JUDGMENT

Rajiv Sharma, and S.N.H. Zaidi, JJ.—Heard Shri Umesh Chandra and Nageshwar Rao, Senior Advocates, assisted by Sri Vikas Singh, Advocate, for the petitioners and Sri Jyotendra Mishra, learned Advocate General, duly assisted by Government Advocate.

2. As in all the aforesaid writ petitions, question of law was involved and as such, both the parties consented for deciding the matter finally without exchange of pleadings, at the admission stage itself. Consequently, all the writ petitions are being deciding by a common order.

3. In all the afore-captioned writ petitions, petitioners have questioned the validity of the Government Order dated 11.5.2010 issued by the State Government directing the police to register cases or initiate action under Sections 272/273 IPC inter alia on the ground that it has resulted in gross violation of fundamental rights of the employee’s and agents of the Company as available under Article 14 and 21 of the Constitution of India and have consequently prayed for quashing of the FIR registered against the employees of the Company in different districts of the State of Uttar Pradesh.

In writ petition No.8254 (MB) of 2010, petitioner No.2 Sumit Sehgal