WRIT - A No. 18956 of 2022 at Allahabad

1 Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:82905 Court No. - 49 Reserved A.F.R. Case :- WRIT - A No. - 18956 of 2022 Petitioner :- Lavkush Tiwari And 1486 Others Respondent :- The State Of U.P. And 2 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Aditya Prakash Verma,Shailesh Verma Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. connected with Case :- WRIT - A No. - 5771 of 2023 Petitioner :- Pappu And 30 Others Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 4 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Shiv Chand Yadav,Shyam Lal Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble J.J. Munir,J. 1. This judgment will decide the present writ petition and connected Writ-A No.5771 of 2023. Since both the petitions involve common questions of fact and law, the facts and the case of parties shall be noticed from Writ-A No.18956 of 2022, which shall be treated as the leading case. 2. The petitioners are Village Policemen, Chowkidars or Gram Prahari, variously called from time to time, but decidedly appointed to this office of some antiquity under the North- Western Provinces Village and Road Police Act, 1873 (Act No. XVI of 1873) (for short, 'the Act of 1873') and since repealed by the Repealing and Amending (Second) Act, 2017 (Act No.4 of 2018) (for short, 'the