JUDGMENT :

Manoj Kumar Gupta, J.

1. The present batch of intra-court appeals filed under Chapter VIII Rule 5 of the Allahabad High Court Rules seek to challenge identical orders and judgments of learned Single Judge dated 25.11.2022 dismissing the writ petitions filed by the appellants for a direction to the respondents to declare them successful in the written examination held for the posts of Constables (Civil Police) and Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) in pursuance of advertisement dated 16.11.2018 issued by U.P. Police Recruitment and Promotional Board (respondent herein).

2. For sake of convenience, we treat Special Appeal No. 93 of 2023 as the leading case and the facts of that case are being noted. The facts of other cases are identical.

3. The selection was held as per the U.P. Police (Constable and Head Constable) Service Rules, 2015 as amended from time to time. It consisted of five stages i.e. (i) written examination (ii) documentary verification (iii) physical standard test