Hon’ble Amitava Lala, J.—This Revenue Bench of the High Court has been flooded with several writ petitions made by the purported holders of licence to run the respective retail liquor shops challenging the new excise policy of the State made in the year 2009, followed by the respective rules and the notifications, for the purpose of allotment of licence of retail liquor shops for the excise year 2009-10. Some of the writ petitions are made by the licence holders of the retail shops falling within the special zone constituted by the Uttar Pradesh Demarcation and Regulation of Special Zones for Exclusive Privilege of Excise Shops Rules, 2009 (hereinafter in short called as the ‘Demarcation Rules, 2009’), their cases are segregated and categorised as ‘special zone category’. The other petitioners, whose existing retail shops are not within such zone but in the zone governed by the Uttar Pradesh Excise (Settlement of Licences for Retail Sale of Country Liquor) (Fourth Amendment) Rules, 2009 (hereinafter in short called as the ‘Rules, 2009’), are segregated and categorised as ‘general zone category’. Some of the writ petitioners are aggrieved by the Uttar Pradesh Excise (Settle