Hon'ble Sudhir Agarwal,J.

1. Pursuant to charge framed against petitioners and their counsel, Sri Prabha Shankar Pandey, vide this Court's order dated 5.11.2012, Sri Anil Tiwari, Advocate, has appeared and has filed two applications and affidavits.

2. One application is by Sri Prabha Shankar Pandey, Advocate, who is representing petitioners, supported with an affidavit dated 18.11.2012 tendering his apology for the averments made in para 6 of writ petition and requesting to drop the criminal contempt proceedings.

3. The second application supported with an affidavit is on behalf of petitioners with the same statement i.e. tendering apology.

4. Proceedings were initiated in view of averments made by petitioners, through their counsel Prabha Shankar Pandey, in para 6 of writ petition, which reads as under:

"6. That the Presiding Officer Shambhu Nath Saroj is X-cadre Judge is also belongs to Scheduled Caste Reserved Category, hence the said presiding officer is not competent to appreciate the arguments in regard to declaring the jurisdiction of maintainability of the suit under Section 59 of U.P. Tenancy Act. The petitioners/appellants moved an application under Section 24 Cr.P.C. on the g

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