Hon’ble Rajnish Kumar, J.—Since common questions of law and fact are involved in all the aforesaid connected writ petitions, therefore, they are being clubbed and decided together by a common judgment and order.

2. Heard Sri Jaideep Narain Mathur, learned Senior Advocate, assisted by Sri Mudit Agarwal, Sri Ashwani Kumar, Sri Akhilesh Kalra and Sri Sandip Dixit, learned Advocates appearing for the petitioners and Sri S.K.Kalia, learned Senior Advocate assisted by Sri U.N.Mishra and Sri Gaurav Mehrotra, learned counsel for the High Court as well as the learned Standing Counsel for the State.

3. These writ petitions have been filed by total fifteen petitioners, namely, S/Shri Sandeep Singh, Sudhir Mishra, Ravi Kumar Sagar, Vineet Kumar, Rahul Singh, Bhanu Pratap Singh, Ashwani Panwar, Kshitish Pandey, Asha Ram Pandey, Akhilesh Kumar Sharma, Ashtosh Tripathi, Mukesh Kumar, Shobhit Sourav, Hridesh Kumar and Himanshu Misra challenging the order of discharge simpliciter from service dated 22.9.2014 and 15.6.2015 from the post of Civil Judge (Jr.Div.)/Judicial Magistrate under