Hon’ble Sudhir Agarwal, J.—Heard Sri Ashok Khare, and Sri Radha Kant Ojha, learned Senior Advocates, appearing for petitioners, learned Standing Counsel for State-respondents, Sri A.K. Yadav, Advocate, for Basic Shiksha Parishad; and, Sri Anoop Trivedi, Sri Seemant Singh, Sri Abhishek Srivastava and Sri S.K. Mishra, Advocates, who have appeared for interveners/selected candidates, in bunch of these cases.

2. Though all these writ petitions are connected and have been nominated to this Bench by Hon’ble the Chief Justice for adjudication, but having heard learned counsels for parties, I find that these writ petitions need be categorised in five groups, namely, Writ Petitions No. 57476 of 2013, 28003 of 2015 and 28977 of 2015 are placed in ‘Group-A’; Writ Petitions No. 58712 of 2013, 62241 of 2013 and 50787 of 2013 are placed in ‘Group-B’; Writ Petitions No. 57236 of 2013 and 2999 of 2015 in ‘Group-C’; Writ Petition No. 15541 of 2015 in ‘Group-D’; and, Writ Petition No. 628 of 2015 in ‘Group-E’. In this judgment, I shall deal with these matters groupwise.

Group-A:

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