Hon’ble Amar Saran, J.—All the aforesaid connected writ petitions have been sent to this Bench headed by one of us (Amar Saran, J.) by order of Hon’ble the Chief Justice dated 5.7.2010.

2. We have heard Sri Umesh Narain Sharma, Sri V.P. Srivastava, and Sri G.S. Chaturvedi, Senior Advocates for the petitioners in some of the petitions, the learned counsel for the other petitioners Punita Mishra, Dinesh Kr. Yadav, Shivanand Tiwari, Amar Deep Singh and others, Lalit Kumar Pandey, Lallan Prasad have also raised some submissions. Other counsel have adopted their contentions. We have also heard Sri A.K. Sand, and Sri Vikas Sahai, learned Additional Government Advocates for the State and have perused the records of the writ petitions, and have also summoned and seen the records in Civil Misc. Writ Petition No. 23250 of 2010, Special Appeal (Defective) No. 610 of 2010 and in Civil Misc. Contempt Petition No. 1724 of 2004.

The petitions are an offshoot of orders passed by Hon’ble Arun Tandon, J on 13.5.2010 in Civil Misc. Writ petition No. 23250 of 2010, wherein the learned single Judge observed as follows:

“Shri M.C. Chaturvedi, Chief Standing Counsel is present in the Court. He su