JUDGMENT :

1. Heard Dr. L.P. Mishra, learned counsel appearing on behalf of the State/appellants and Shri Anil Kumar Tiwari, learned Senior Advocate assisted by Shri Apoorva Tiwari, learned Counsel for the respondents.

2. All the appeals have been preferred against the judgment and order dated 21.09.2017 passed by learned Single Judge in Writ Petition (S/S) No. 5828 of 2015 (Dr. Kishore Tandon and Others vs. State of U.P. and Others) along with connected Writ Petition (S/S) No. 12598 of 2017 (Hari Shankar Nath Tiwari and Others vs. State of U.P. and Others), on the ground that the directions issued by the learned Single Judge with regard to reopening of the appointment/regularisation of the Lower Division Assistants (hereinafter referred as “LDA”) in U.P. Secretariat under U.P. Secretariat Upper Division Assistant and Lower Division Assistant (Regularisation of Officiating Promotion) Rules, 1990, are in utter violation of the directions issued by a coordinate Bench of this Court in Special Appeal No. 31 of 2005 vide judgment and order dated 8th May, 2015, which have been upheld b