Hon’ble Satyendra Singh Chauhan, J.—Since common questions of law and fact are involved in all the writ petitions, therefore, they are being clubbed together and are being decided by a common judgment.

2. Heard Sri J.N. Mathur, learned Senior Advocate assisted by Sri Mudit Agarwal, Sri Kapil Dev, learned Senior Advocate assisted by Sri Ashwani Kumar, Sri Akhilesh Kalra and Sri Sandeep Dixit, 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 learned Standing Counsel for the State.

3. These writ petitions have been filed by various petitioners separately and jointly challenging the discharge orders dated 22.9.2014 and 15.6.2015 from the post of Munsif as a probationer under Rule 24(4) of U.P. Judicial Service Rules, 2001 (for short ‘’the Rules’) and in some of the writ petitions, order dated 19.9.2014 has also been challenged.

4. The facts of the present case are that the petitioners after qualifying the PCS(J) Examination in pursuance of the advertisement issued by the State of U.P. dated 10.5.2013, joined on the post of Civil Judge (Junior Division). Th