JUDGMENT

Vikramajit Sen, J.—Leave granted.

2. Applications for correcting the cause title and all the applications for impleadment as party respondent are allowed.

3. In these Appeals, we are concerned with the renewal as also the appointment of District Government Counsel (Civil and Criminal) in the Subordinate Courts across the State of Uttar Pradesh. The State as the Appellant, has assailed the final judgment and order dated 5.11.2014 in Writ Petition being Misc. Bench No. 9127 of 2012 passed by a Division Bench of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench. The High Court in this impugned Order has quashed the Orders of the State Government terminating the appointment of District Government Counsel and has further directed the State Government to reconsider their renewal. Indubitably, the appointments as well as the renewals would have to be in consonance with Section 24 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Cr.P.C. for brevity) and the Legal Remembrancer Manual (hereinafter referred to as the ‘LR Manual’) applicable throughout the State of U.P. The Manual which came into force in 1975 inter alia prescribes mandatory ‘consultation’ with the District Judge and the Dis