Hon’ble Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya, J.—Rejoinder-affidavit filed in Writ-A No. 47479 of 2015 is taken on record.

2. On an oral prayer made by the learned counsel for the petitioners, let petitioner No. 1 of this writ petition be described as Home Guard No. 0384.

3. Necessary amendment shall be incorporated by the learned counsel for the petitioners during course of the day.

4. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned Standing Counsel for the State-respondents.

5. Since the issue which has been sought to be adjudicated by this Court in all these petitions is the same, with the consent of learned counsel for the parties, the Court proceeds to decide all these matters by the following common judgment and order.

6. For convenience Writ-A No. 47479 of 2015, Ram Nath Gupta and others v. State of U.P. and others, shall be treated to be the leading writ petition.

7. All these petitions have been filed with the prayer to direct the State-respondents to give the benefit to the petitioners of pay and other benefits equal in amount to the pay and other benefits which are admissible to police personnel in the light of the judgment and order dated 11.3.2015 rendered by Hon’ble