JUDGMENT :

1. RULE returnable forthwith. Mr.Krutik Parikh learned AGP waives service of notice of Rule on behalf of the respondent State.

2. With the consent of learned advocates for the respective parties, the petition is taken up for final hearing.

3. By way of this petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the petitioners have prayed for quashing and settings aside the orders dated 20.11.2018, 09.10.2019, 10.07.2020 and 19.08.2020, holding that the discontinuance of the benefit of GPF is bad.

4. At the outset, it is pointed out that the issue is covered by a decision of this Court in Special Civil Application No.7522 of 2020.

5. The above order passed was confirmed by the Division Bench of this Court in Letters Patent Appeal No.147 of 2022 dated 22.03.2022.

6. Reading the decision of the coordinate bench of this Court dated 16.06.2021 rendered in Special Civil Application No.7522 of 2020, for the purposes of disposal of the present petition, it will be apt to reproduce the relevant portion of the order of the coordinate bench, which reads as under:

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