JUDGMENT :

Rajan Roy, J.

1. Heard Sri G.C. Verma, learned counsel for the petitioners, Sri H.P. Srivastava, learned Addl. Chief Standing Counsel for the State, Sri Satish Chandra Mishra, learned Senior Counsel along with Sri Paavan Awasthi, Sri Sanjeev Singh, Sri Sunil Kumar Chaudhary and Sri Kapil Mishra, learned counsel for opposite party no. 6, Sri Gaurav Mehrotra & Sri Parmanand Asthana, learned counsels appearing for respective Cane Growers' Co-operative Societies.

2. This is a bunch of writ petitions filed by cane growers seeking their sugarcane dues which have not been paid by the opposite party no.06 i.e. Bajaj Hindustan Sugar Limited (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Company’). The Company runs 14 sugar mills in the State of U.P. and the petitioners are sugarcane growers who sold their sugar cane to five of these mills situated at Gola Gokaran Nath, Khambhar Khera, Palia Kalan, Barkhera, and Maqsoodapur. This matter relates to these five mills only.

3. Writ Petition No.11355 (M/B) of 2021 has been treated as the leading writ petition. Relief prayed in the writ petition is as under :-

"(i) Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding thereby the opposite