Bhaskar Bhattacharya, J.:

All these Mandamus Appeals were taken up together as in all these appeals, the different appellants have challenged the selfsame order passed by a learned Single Judge of this Court by which His Lordship allowed a writ application in which prayer was made for a direction that the criminal investigation involved in the writ-application should be conducted by CBI and not by CID as per direction of the government.

Being dissatisfied with the aforesaid direction given by the learned Single Judge along with some other findings, all these appeals have been preferred by not only the different respondents of the writ-application but also the writ petitioners whose grievance is that the learned Single Judge in addition to the aforesaid directions ought to have passed directions for initiating criminal proceedings against the respondents in the writ-petition in accordance with the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Sm. Lata Singh vs. State of U.P and another reported in AIR 2006 SC 2522.

The respondent Nos.1 and 2 of these appeals (except MAT No.713 of 2008) filed a writ-application before a learned Single Judge of this Court thereby praying f