JUDGMENT :

Rajan Roy, Saroj Yadav, JJ.

This is a bunch of writ petitions filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India challenging the sanction order dated 16.12.2019 and consequential orders of communication issued thereafter in respect to F.I.R. registered at Crime No. 1 of 2014 dated 1.1.2014 under sections 409, 120-B I.P.C. and section 13(1)(d) read with section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1988. All these writ petitions involve same issue, therefore, they were heard together and are being decided by a common judgment. For convenience Writ Petition No. 25382 (MB) of 2020, Rajeev Kumar Singh v. State of U.P. & ors., has been treated as the leading writ petition.

2. Petitioners of the aforesaid petitions pray as under :

“this Hon’ble Court may be pleased to issue -

(a) a writ, order or direction in the nature of certiorari for quashing of the Prosecution Sanction Order dated 16.12.2019 signed on 14.12.2019 by the Managing Director UPRNN and the Communication Letter dated 16.12.2019 actually signed on 13.12.2019 against the petitioner contained as Annexure No. 2 to this Writ Petition arising out of FIR registered at Crime No. 1/2014 dated 01.01.2014, under sections: