JUDGMENT :

1. In this bunch of review petitions, the petitioners are seeking review of the judgment dated 29.01.2021 passed by this Court in LPA No. 269/2019 along-with clubbed matters under the title State of J&K & Ors. Vs. Abdul Ahmad Lone. In terms of the judgment sought to be reviewed, this Court allowed the appeals filed by the State and set aside the common judgment passed by the Writ Court.

2. As is apparent from the judgment, all the issues raised by the parties have been elaborately discussed and decided. These review petitions are an effort by the petitioners to re-agitate the same issues which have been finally decided by this Court by a well considered judgment.

3. From the memorandum of the review petitions, it clearly transpires that the petitioners want this Court to hear the matter afresh and decide the issues already decided by taking a different view. Such course is not permissible in law.

4. Following are the points that have been highlighted by learned counsel for the petitioners during the course of arguments:-

a) That the Government order No. 43-F of 2015 dated 17.03.2015 was prospective in operation and, therefore, not applicable to the petitioners who were engage