Hon’ble Suneet Kumar, J.—Heard Sri Seemant Singh, learned counsel for the petitioners, learned Advocate General assisted by Sri C.S. Singh, Additional Chief Standing Counsel, Sri U.P. Singh learned Standing Counsel for the State respondents, Sri P.N. Saxena, Senior Advocate assisted by Sri Vinod Kumar, Sri Manish Goel, Sri Anoop Trivedi and Sri Rahul Srivastava, Advocates appearing for the private respondents.

2. The connected writ petitions are based on identical facts and law, therefore, on the consent of the parties, the petitions are being decided together.

3. The facts of petition, being Writ Petition No. 37599 of 2015 (Ashish Kumar Pandey and others v. State of U.P. and others), is being considered to determine the controversy.

4. On a specific query, whether all the affected parties are represented, the Standing Counsel would inform that all selected candidates have been put to notice by the State, selections and appointments have been made subject to the final outcome of the petitions. All affected parties are represented. Sri P.N. Saxena, Senior Advocate, is espousing the cause of the private respondents assisted by a battery of lawyers.

5. The petitioners who are