JUDGMENT :

1. Heard Sri Navin Sinha learned Senior Advocate assisted by Sri Saiful Islam Siddiqui and Ms. Tahira Kazmi, Sri Rakesh Pandey, learned Senior Advocate assisted by Sri Ramesh Chandra Tiwari and Sri G.K. Singh, learned Senior Advocate assisted by Sri Sunil Kumar Singh, learned counsels appearing for the petitioners; Sri Ajit Kumar Singh, learned Additional Advocate General assisted by Sri Sudhanshu Srivastava, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel on behalf of the State and Sri Ashok Khare, learned Senior Advocate assisted by Sri K.S. Kushwaha and Sri B.K. Shukla, Sri Sanjeev Kumar Tyagi, Sri Prabhakar Dubey, Sri A.R. Siddiqui, learned counsels appearing for the private-respondents.

2. In this batch of writ petition, a common question arises about the applicability of the amendment brought by the Ordinance No. 8 of 2022, in Section 15 (13) of U.P. Kshettra Panchayat and Zila Panchayat Act, 1961, (in short as ‘the Act’ 1961) whereby the period of “one year” prescribed therein has been substituted to “two years.” The said amendment has been enforced on 04.10.2022 and published in the official gazette dated 06.10.2022. In all the connected matters, the application to make