JUDGMENT :

SUBHASH VIDYARTHI, J.

1. Heard Sri Sandeep Dixit and Sri. Sanjay Bhasin, Senior Advocates assisted by Sri V.S. Ojha, Sri. Amarjeet Singh Yadav and Sri Purushottam Advocates, the learned Counsel for the petitioners, Sri. Rajesh Tiwari, the learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the State-respondent and Sri Gaurav Mehrotra, the learned Counsel for the opposite party no. 2, i.e. High Court of Judicature at Allahabad.

2. The instant writ petition has been filed by the U.P. Judicial Services Association and 39 others. Briefly stated, the petitioners case is that presently the petitioner nos. 2 to 40 are working on the post of Civil Judge (Senior Division)/Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate/Chief Judicial Magistrate. The year of recruitment of each of the petitioners, the dates of their promotion on the post of Civil Judge (Senior Division) and the respective places of their present posting has been given in the petition in a tabular form. It has further been stated in the writ petition that the services of petitioner nos. 2 to 40 were confirmed on 11.08.2021.

3. On 17.12.2020, this Court had issued an advertisement inviting applications for filling up 98 vacancies of the