D. S. SINHA, A. K. BANERJI, SUDHIR NARAIN, A. K. CHAKRABARTY AND S. K. PHAUJDAR, JJ.

( 1 ) THE moot point in the above two writ petitions being the same, a challenge to the seniority list dated 6. 5. 1992 for the members of the Uttar Pradesh Higher Judicial Service. the two matters were heard together and are being disposed of by this single judgment.

( 2 ) ON the presentation of the petitions, the matters were placed in the usual course before a division Bench and upon its reference of the whole matter to a Full Bench, as per order dated 30. 10. 92, a Full Bench was constituted under the orders of the Honble the Chief Justice of the allahabad High Court, with changes of the Honble Judges constituting the Full Bench from time to time, the matters finally came before us and were heard by us. Arguments on behalf of petitioners in the two matters were advanced by Sri Ravi Kant and Sri Dinesh Dwivedi. Another member of the U. P. Higher Judicial Service (henceforth to be described as the H. J. S.) Sri R. G. Shukla, made a prayer for being heard as an intervener on the ground that his case was identical with that of the petitioners in the two writ petitions as he too had come to the H. J

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