JUDGMENT :

1. This bunch of petitions have been filed raising various grounds to the appointments made in terms of the Advertisement No.03 of 2013 published by the respondent no.2 for filling up the posts of Principals in the recognized Intermediate Colleges and the High Schools recognized under the provisions of The U.P. Intermediate Education Act, 1921 and in terms of the powers conferred upon the Board by virtue of The Uttar Pradesh Secondary Education (Services Selection Boards) Act, 1982 (in short 'the 1982 Act') read with The Uttar Pradesh Secondary Education Services Selection Board Rules, 1998. In the various writ petitions, there are numerable grounds of challenge to the selections made, however, there is one common thread running across all the writ petitions being the filling up the vacancies initiated by the Advertisement No.03 of 2013 and culminating in the appointments made in the year 2022 after about 9 years is itself arbitrary and violative of Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution of India. I propose to decide this common question that has arisen in all the wri