JUDGMENT :

Heard Sri Upendra Upadhyay, Siya Ram Verma and Sri Shiv Bahadur Singh, learned counsel for the petitioners, Sri Vinod Diwaker, learned A.A.G. for the State assisted by Sri Deepak Mishra and Ms. Manju Thakur, learned A.G.A. and Sri Vinay Saran, learned Amicus assisted by Sri Saumitra Dwivedi.

These three petitions raise a common issue of violation of Right to Privacy on account of list of top-10 criminals displayed at different Police Stations namely, Khuldabad, District-Prayagraj, Police StationBithoor, District-Kanpur Nagar and at Police Station-Karchhana, District-Prayagraj.

Brief facts of each petition

1. Petitioners in C.M.W.P. No. 10974 of 2020 are real brothers engaged in business and claim to be income tax payees. They are aggrieved with a list published at Police Station-Khuldabad, showing their names as top-10 criminals for the year 2020. Petitioner no. 1-Jeeshan @ Jaanu is at serial no. 3 and petitioner no. 2 at the top of list of top-10 criminals at Police Station-Khuldabad, (Annexure-2) to the writ petition. Petitioner no. 1 is also aggrieved with the opening of his history sheet on 20.08.2020.

(1A) Petitioners grievance is that they are relatives of Ex-Member of