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Date or directions COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS and Registrar’s order with Signatures WPSS 1837/ 2025 WPSS 1981/ 2022 WPSS 2384/ 2022 WPSS 2396/ 2022 Hon’ble Manoj Kumar Tiwari, J.

Mr. Shubhang Dobhal, Advocate, for the petitioners.

Mr. Dinesh Bankoti, Brief Holder, for the State.

Mr. Naveen Chandra Tewari, Advocate, for the respondent no. 6.

(2) Since the issue involved in all these writ petitions is identical, therefore, these are being heard and decided together by this common judgment. However, for brevity, facts of Writ Petition (S/S) No. 1837 of 2025 alone are being considered and discussed here.

(3) Petitioners were employed with different Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies in District Haridwar. Their services were terminated by the Secretary of the Cooperative Society concerned on the ground that they were wrongly appointed. Thus feeling aggrieved, petitioners have approached this Court.

(4) Learned Counsels for the respondents submit that writ petition against Primary Co-operative Societies is not maintainable, as they are not ‘State’ within the meaning of Article 12 of the Constitution. They rely upon a judgment rende