JUDGMENT :

Heard Sri Ajeet Kumar Singh, learned Additional Advocate General assisted by Sri Pankaj Kumar Rai, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel and Sri Amit Verma, learned Standing Counsel for the respondents-appellants and Sri Yogesh Kumar Saxena, learned counsel for the respondents-petitioners.

2. Present intra-court appeal has been filed against the order of the learned single judge dated 12.03.2018 passed in Writ-A No. 33526 of 2016 (Shiv Jag Sharma and others Vs. State of U.P. and others).

3. By that order, the learned single judge has allowed the writ petition, following the earlier decision of a Division Bench of this Court in Special Appeal (Defective) No. 773 of 2016 (State of U.P. and others Vs. Gorakh Nath Pandey and others), arising from an order of the another learned single judge dated 12.04.2016 in Writ-A No. 61107 of 2013 (Gorakh Nath Pandey and others Vs. State of U.P. and others).

4. In short, petitioners-respondents who had been engaged as workmen at the Churk and Dala Cement Factories established by the Government of U.P., have been directed to be paid pension, commensurate to the years of service rendered at those cement factories of the State Government, u