Leave is granted in the Special Leave Petitions and the appeals are also heard on merits along with the Writ Peti tions.
They have all been heard together since the companymon question in all of them is the validity of the Circular G.O. No.
D 284 Seven Law Ministry dated 6.2.1990 issued by the Govern ment of State of Uttar Pradesh.
1990 and directed preparation of fresh panels to make appointments in place of the existing incumbents.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by VERMA, J. This judgment disposes of a bunch of matters companyprising of some writ petitions under Article 32 of the Constitution of India and special leave petitions under Article 136 of the Constitution of India, all of which involve for decision certain companymon questions.
The validity of this State action is challenged in these matters after the challenge has been rejected by the Allahabad High Court.
This has been done by Circular G.O. No.
Sunil Gupta, R. Venkataramani, S.M. Garg, Suresh Harkauli.
Mrs. Geetanjali Mohan, Ms. Anuradha Mahajan.
By one stroke, seemingly resorting to the Spoils System alien to our companystitutional scheme, the Government of State of Uttar Pradesh has terminated by a general order the appointments of all Government Counsel Civil, Criminal, Revenue in all the districts of the State of U.P.w.e.f.
The special leave petitions are directed against a companymon judgment of the Allahabad High Court dismissing some writ petitions in which the same questions were raised.
Sushil Harkauli, Sunil Gupta, A.S. Pundir, Suresh Kumar Misra, Mahesh Shrivastava, H.D. Pathak, Vishnu Mathur and Mrs. Shobha Dikshit for the appearing parties.
1990, irrespective of the fact whether the term of the incumbent had expired or was subsisting.
D 284 Seven Law Ministry dated 6.2.1990, terminating all the existing appointments w.e.f.
