Hon’ble Surya Prakash Kesarwani, J.—Heard Sri Kshetresh Chandra Shukla, Sri Pankaj Verman, Sri Ajay Sharma, Sri Surendra Nath Ojha, Sri Anil Kumar, Sri M.W. Faridi, Sri A.K. Trivedi, Smt. Gajala Bano, Sri Anand Srivastava, Sri Anil Bhushan, Sri Satyendra Kumar Mishra, Sri B.P. Yadav, Sri K.B. Srivastava, Sri Sachin Upadhyay, Sri Arvind Srivastava, Sri Krishna Bihari, Sri Saurabh Pratap Singh, Sri Ajay Sharma, Sri Lal Babu Lal, Sri Vidya Bhushan Srivastava, Mrs. Anupama Parasar, Sri Siddharth Khare, learned counsels for the petitioners and Sri Vivek Mishra, learned Additional Advocate General assisted by Sri B.P. Singh Kachhwah, learned Standing Counsel for State-respondents and Sri Samir Sharma, learned counsel for the U.P.S.R.T.C.

2. This bunch of writ petitions were heard on 20.5.2014, 21.5.2014, 22.5.2014, 26.5.2014, 27.5.2014, 28.5.2014 and 29.5.2014. On 21.5.2014, the following questions were framed for deciding the controversy involved in these writ petitions :

QUESTIONS

(i) Whether the writ petitions are highly belated and hit by principles of latches?

(ii) Whether the post held by the petitioners are pensionable post, and if so which are the relevant Government orde