N.V. Anjaria, J.

1. All the petitioner companies, by means of the present petition and thereby invoking the writ jurisdiction of this Court under Article 226 of the Constitution, have prayed for issuance of writ of mandamus or direction to restrain the respondents from disconnecting the telecommunication services which are provided by the second and third respondent and their affiliates to the petitioners herein, who are the operators, for the services of Direct Inward Dialing (DID), Group Electronic Private Automatic Branch Exchange (EPBX) provided by the second respondent-licencee company. The second respondent who is Chief Executive Officer of Reliance Communications Limited and the third respondent who is Chief Executive Officer of the Gujarat Circle of the same company, as per the say of the petitioners, were set to disconnect the said services from 10th March, 2016 without giving prior intimation in writing. Therefore the present petition and this prayer.

2. Another prayer which was incorporated by amending the petition was for direction against the first respondent-Union of India through Secretary, Department of Telecom, Ministry of Communications, to order the secon