JUDGMENT :

1. Heard Sri Amol Kumar, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Raghvendra Kumar Singh, learned Advocate General of U.P. assisted by Sri Manjive Shukla, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the State-respondents.

2. By means of this writ petition, the petitioner has prayed for the following reliefs :-

"(I) to issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of certiorari quashing the impugned order dated 31.03.2021, having reference No.1054/A.N.C./PENSION/M.I-15731 passed by the Joint Director Pension, Kanpur Mandal, Kanpur, by means of which, the pension to the petitioners was stopped with immediate effect as well as the order dated 15.02.2021 having reference No.3625/2021/4217 issued by the Director, Employees State Insurance Scheme, Labour and Medical Services, Uttar Pradesh passed by the opposite part No.3, contained as Annexure Nos.1, 2 & 3.

(II) to issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding the opposite parties to release the pension to the petitioner, without any delay or interruption."

3. The brief facts, as per learned counsel for the petitioner, are that pursuant to the advertisement in the Newspaper on 30.01.1986 for making ap