JUDGMENT :

(1) Heard Sri Amitabh Kumar Rai, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel appearing for the State Authorities/appellants/applicants and Sri Ashutosh Shahi, learned Counsel appearing for the respondent/petitioner.

(2) This intra-court appeal filed under Chapter VIII Rule 5 of the Allahabad High Court Rules, 1952 is delayed by one day.

(3) The appeal is accompanied with the application for condonation of delay supported with an affidavit.

(4) Since sufficient cause has been shown by the learned Counsel for the applicants/appellants and learned counsel for the respondent/petitioner has no objection, the application for condonation of delay is allowed and the delay in filing the appeal is condoned.

(5) Let the appeal be assigned a regular number.

Order on the appeal

(6) The instant Special Appeal has been filed by the State assailing the judgment and order dated 19.07.2022 passed in a bunch of writ petitions, leading Writ-A No.200222 of 2015, Kuldeep Kumar and 100 others v. State of U.P. and others. The bunch State of U.P. and others v. Satya Prakash Gupta also included the writ petition filed by the respondent-petitioner, i.e., Writ-A No. 23634 of 2017. The appeal has also sought