By the Court.—Writ petition No. 4502 of 1982 was filed by Indian societies of Lawyers through its convenor Shri Ravi Kiran Jain, Advocate practicing at Allahabad High Court with the prayers to issue a writ of mandamus directing the respondents to appoint judges to the 12 vacancies in the Allahabad High Court without delay; to issue a direction directing the respondents to review the position arising out of arrears of pending cases in the High Court and to refix without delay the strength of judges of this Court in order to dispose of the arrears. The petitioners also sought the relief to abolish the posts of the additional judges, and to declare those posts as the posts of permanent judges, and fill them up appointing permanent judges on those posts.

2. In People’s Union for Civil Liberties U.P. Branch through its Joint Secretary v. State of U.P. (Writ Petition No. 1533 of 1996) the petitioner has prayed for direction commanding the registry of the Court to place all the criminal appeals, criminal revisions, applications under Section 482 Cr.P.C. applications in which trials have been stayed and the criminal writ petitions before this Court, if such cases are pending for mor